My goal is helping others. Helping others makes me feel good, and I work at Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. When you go to the main hospital and see the patients’ faces, you get motivated that you are apart of a larger community that is focused on helping others and making a difference. The biggest motivator for me is making a difference for patient’s experience and PI’s experience at MSK. My second motivator is that my work is both exciting and challenging. I’m also ambitious, I’ve been at Sloan for 5 years and have had 3 different roles. I love the people and as Dr. Simon mentions in lecture you spend most of your day at work and it can be a “social” club. Working in a great environment with people you like makes going to work very enjoyable. I’m very engaged with work and look to improve process and will put in extra time to get more done than just the minimum. I think if you love your job, there will be a direct, positive impact on the performance of the departments projects/deals. If you’re surrounded with other motivated people, they will help increase the departments productivity.

In WSJ Article The Secret to Motivating Your Team I found as mentioned in lecture that everyone has different motivations. In the article it goes on to say, “That’s the magic of managing talented people – making them feel they are participating in something valuable, something unique, something out of the ordinary. The manager’s job is to get his team to make a commitment – to each other, to the goals of the group, to a cause that is greater than themselves. That commitment, it turns out, is worth more than gold” I do think having motivated people is key to having a successful project/business, but as we mentioned in lecture it is the manager’s responsibility to develop their employees.

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