A simple way to inspire your team | David Burkus

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🗓️ 27 October 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Using paychecks, perks and carefully worded mission statements plastered on posters, companies are on a never-ending quest to find what drives morale at work. An underappreciated solution lies in the answer to one simple question, says management researcher David Burkus. With notable examples backed by decades of success, he presents a clear path to inspiring your team — and finding your purpose at work.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:11.0	I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks Daily.
0:13.9	Do you know your company's mission statement?
0:16.6	Well, organizational psychologist David Berkis says it doesn't matter.
0:21.1	Something else is the key to staying motivated and to motivating teams at work.
0:26.3	In his 2022 talk from Ted X Reno, he shares the question companies should be asking for
0:31.5	more meaningful work and workplaces.
0:35.2	After the break?
0:37.8	Hey, listener.
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0:40.2	We are conducting an audience survey and we'd be really grateful if you could take just
0:43.7	a few minutes to respond.
0:45.6	Please visit survey.prx.org slash daily to take the survey today.
0:51.7	That's survey.prx.org slash daily.
0:55.0	Thanks.
0:57.6	In 2014, APMG's leadership had a problem.
1:02.9	Accounting is boring.
1:06.3	Apologies to any accountants in the room, but that really was the issue.
1:12.3	The senior leadership of one of the world's premier accounting firms had been working
1:16.7	for a while to improve morale and engagement across the nearly 30,000 employees of the
1:22.5	firm.
1:23.9	When they started, morale was in the tank.
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