Welcome to another episode of At the table with Patrick Linconey,

where everything we talk about is related to organizational health

and the world of work.

I'm Pat Linconey, your host, joined by the full crew today of Bo, Cody, Tracy,

all of whom are fine.

Got Karen sitting next to me, Matt behind the glass producing.

Cody, what is our topic today?

The motivation vacuum.

Right, I wish, we all said we wish we had recorded the last 20 minutes of us preparing to do this talk because we had such an interesting conversation about what is this really about and we finally figured it out. And it's interesting to hear us doing that and

so maybe one of these days we'll just film the pre-conversation so people can see how

the sausage gets made.

Although we're still going to talk about it in a very open way.

We haven't figured it out completely.

But here's the premise here, and that is everyone who comes to work,

whether they're arriving at a new job for the first time or they're coming every day after that

whether they're going to an interview and they're being talked to or whether it's their daily

routine there is there is a motivation for them. They're doing it for a particular reason.

And an organization, a leader of an organization, needs to align people around what I call their primary motivation like why we're here

and what we're trying to do.

On a macro basis we talk about that as the core purpose of an organization, why we exist. Jim Collins would call it the core purpose of an organization, why we exist.

Jim Collins would call it the core purpose.

And then on a micro level, it's what we talk about in the truth about employee

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