What I have a problem with are the amounts of money that corporate America is spending on motivational training. I’ve attended presentations by…leading figures in “training and motivation” who present this very expensive, rah-rah cheerleading nonsense. These people are getting paid $1,000 to $5,000 a minute, but they aren’t accomplishing anything more than a sales manager can accomplish simply by taking his staff out to eat once a month, which is far cheaper.
Corporate America is structured to give people what they want. We need to get away from that mentality and, instead, give people what they need. Skills training may be boring and pedantic, but it doesn’t have to be, and a lot of people need it. Instead, we hire people to motivate us to have a better attitude. It’s all part of the nonsense that’s pervasive in society — that attitude alone is enough to prevail.
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