1013: Harnessing the Six Motives that Shape Culture with Neel Doshi

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🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Neel Doshi reveals how to build and sustain high performing cultures through total motivation.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The six motives at the root of culture

2) How to use metrics the wrong and right way

3) The questions that kill motivation

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— ABOUT NEEL —

Neel is the co-founder of Vega Factor and co-author of bestselling book, Primed to Perform: How to Build the Highest Performing Cultures Through the Science of Total Motivation. Previously, Neel was a Partner at McKinsey & Company, CTO and founding member of an award-winning tech startup, and employee of several mega-institutions. He studied engineering at MIT and received his MBA from Wharton. In his spare time, he’s an avid yet mediocre woodworker and photographer.

• Book: Primed to Perform: How to Build the Highest Performing Cultures Through the Science of Total Motivation

• Website: Factor.ai

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0:00.0	People will ask me,
0:07.7	So Neil, are you saying metrics are bad?
0:09.3	No, not all metrics.
0:10.9	The scoreboard can make a game more fun.
0:12.8	You often need the scoreboard to make the game fun.
0:15.3	The problem is not the metric.
0:16.8	The problem is you weaponize the metric.
0:18.4	You made people feel bad about it.
0:19.7	You're used to create pressure.
0:21.6	If you want your people to be engaged in their work,
0:23.6	make their work engaging.
0:25.6	The better way of thinking about purpose is its opposite.
0:29.6	Like if the opposite of play's boredom,
0:30.6	the best opposite of purpose that I've found is fungibility.
0:35.6	You feel fungible.
0:36.6	You feel like a cog in the machine. Because even if the
0:39.0	machine is incredibly purposeful, if you were a cog in that machine, you will not feel the purpose
0:45.1	motive. And that's a very important distinction that people don't quite understand.
0:55.5	That's Neil Doshi.
0:59.9	He's the co-founder of Vega Factor and co-author of the New York Times bestseller, Prime to Perform.
1:03.4	How to Build the Highest Performing Cultures through the Science of Total Motivation.
1:06.5	Neil cuts straight to what's at the root of high-performing cultures.
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