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Best-selling author Daniel Pink on returning from the home office: How executives are now motivating their team

2021-07-20T06:37:37.974Z


After many months in the home office, employees return to the office. Best-selling author and motivation expert Daniel Pink explains how executives motivate their team when they restart. Most important task: Overcoming distrust.


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"The home office during the pandemic was a huge international trust experiment," says

Daniel Pink

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Harvard Business manager: You have been writing about

motivation

and good

cooperation

for decades

.

Has 2020 changed our view of what constitutes good leadership?

Daniel Pink:

I'm not sure.

If I had to choose between yes and no, I would flip a coin.

The optimist in me says things have changed.

It is remarkable: 20 years ago I wrote in the book "Free Agent Nation" that in the future people will work for themselves instead of for companies.

Back then everyone said I was crazy.

CEOs stated that their employees would never work from home.

The idea of ​​the home office was spurned for decades.

Then Corona came - and within three days it was working all over the world.

What do you conclude from this?

That managers should trust their employees.

That should be their basic attitude - and not mistrust, as has often been the case in the USA and Europe so far.

Employees shouldn't have to prove that they can be trusted - as a matter of principle, they should be trusted first.

That would significantly improve the world of work.

During the pandemic, the home office was a kind of huge international trust experiment in which the participants proved worldwide that they can be trusted.

It would be crazy to roll backwards again now.

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