Mapping Motivation for Top Performing Teams

Conclusion

We commented in the Preface on how strange it was to be writing a book on motivation and teams when this topic seemed to have been covered so thoroughly before in earlier volumes. For those who have read the four prequels to this volume – congratulations! – you may have noticed something a little different or perhaps more developed in this one: namely, the increased cross-textuality of this book compared with its predecessors. This is manifested in two ways.

First, the number of Endnotes actually referring back to the first four books seems much greater than before. The other books in comparison seem more stand-alone; here, as we press on into deeper levels of motivational understanding, we do need the backstop of earlier ideas, tools ...