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You can’t instill motivation in people, but you can create an environment that feeds whatever inherent spark they already have. For engineering leaders, that means connecting work to a larger purpose and knowing people well enough to understand what motivates them individually.
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Failing a student is the closest thing a teacher has to firing someone. A student who failed my course and came back twice, and a senior hire who did not work out, and what each taught me about holding a performance bar without wrecking the person on the other side of it.
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Fifteen years of teaching taught me that most missed expectations are a failure to set them. What my classroom experience taught me about defining and holding a performance bar as an engineering manager.