Dear colleages, Here is my first take on those who responded to my survey last week. Note that most of these were received within 24 hours of sending the question. I would not say this is a scientific study. This is just an initial sense of the responses. More time will allow me to better categorize the and analyze the collected data. But I did want to get back to you. Note on bottom of this page, the mix of those who responded. There were a little over 100 respondents. I did not see many initial differences between non-profit and for-profit folks or even consultants who work alone. I would love your response or thoughts on this. I am looking for a few organizations who would like me to do this just for them (their entire staff) to see if different organizations have differences in responses. I will certainly share the results with the organization. Thanks, Stephen Here are the questions and the top 11 answers to each question. List three things that spark your energy and passion as you go about your work from day to day? 1. Working with Motivated and Talented People 42 2. Creative work that generates new ideas and doing new things 42 3. Being appreciated, respected and trusted to do your job 41 4. Helping others and having positive impact on others 40 5. Solving problems and being challenged by deadlines 24 6. Doing something that makes a difference 23 7. Personal Breakthroughs 17 8. Getting some balance beyond work 15 9. Professional Development and learning on the job 13 10. Having Clear Objectives with a clear end 8 11. Having Lots of interaction with Others 6 2) List three things that drain your energy and passion as you go about your work from day to day? 1. Working with Incompetence including micro management and breach of ethics 38 2. Working with complainers, whiners and negative people 35 3. Unrealistic Expectations and insufficient resources to get the job done money, time and people 29 4. Lack of interesting work or lots of repetitive work 24 5. When turf and walls inhibit work -- egomania personnel conflicts 23 6. Lack of appreciation and feedback 20 7. Paper Work, budgets, excessive Email and bureaucracy 18 8. Meetings especially ineffective and poorly planned meetings with no purpose 14 9. Working with shallow thinkers who follow rules for no reason 10 10. Working with distant and power hungry management team day-to-day 8 11. Doing something where I have no value or control 8 Roles of respondents: Non profit mgmt or employees 41 Consultants 34 For Profit employees or mgmt 14 Academic 5 Govšt employee 2 Teachers 2 Lawyer 1 So, what should we do? Create a learning and every changing workplace with interesting and motivated people who provide appropriate feedback and appreciate those around them. Challenge people and give them a chance to make a difference. Give people the room to have some balance outside of work by providing the necessary resources to do their jobs at work. Abolish all wasteful bureaucracy, paperwork and meetings that have no purpose or effective motivating elements. Get rid of incompetent, negative, whiney, unethical, turf building and power hungry employees especially managers. Also, hire motivated and interesting people. By doing all of this you will have a dynamic, energized, motivated and vibrant employee base that will be dedicated to your vision and make things happen. Donšt I make it sound so simple. Enjoy the data. Regards, Stephen If you do not want to receive these types of emails about innovation in the workplace, please press reply and write remove in the subject. -------------------------------------------------- Stephen Brand President and Chief Imagination Officer The New Enterprise Factory 1799 Akron Peninsula Road Akron, OH 44313 330-864-1518 phone 1-702-995-6894 fax [log in to unmask] www.enterprisefactory.com TEC Chairman-NE Ohio #490 and #1180 Increasing the Effectiveness and Enhancing the Lives of CEO's www.teconline.com Tune into Enterprise Factory Radio via the internet Listen at your own time and pace -- www.enterprisefactory.com A show about New Ventures, Entrepreneurship and Innovative Business Practices ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).