Motivación (o falta de..)

¿Qué pasa cuando las personas pierden la motivación por lo que hacen? ¿Cuando ya no están interesadas por su trabajo?

Yo solía pensar que cuando esto sucede, usualmente la gente elije uno de estos tres caminos:

1. Cambiar de trabajo para tratar de encontrar la motivación perdida en otro lado.
2. Quedarse en la empresa pero culpándola de la situación y quedándose en la queja y la catarsis.
3. Quedarse en la empresa tratando de cambiar la situación, sin culpar a nadie.

Seth Godin, en un interesante post llamado I quilt, plantea una 4 opción. Como es cortito lo transcribo todo abajo:

When you've had enough, can't tolerate your job any longer and are ready to quit, perhaps you could try one last thing.

Quilt instead.

You've got nothing to lose, right? I mean, you're going to quit anyway, so what's the worst that could happen to you?

So quilt. Spend hours every day integrating the people you work with into a cohesive group. Weave in your customers as well. Take every scrap, even the people you don't like, and sew them together. Spend far less time than you should on the 'real' work and instead focus on creating genuine connections with the people you work with. Including your boss. After all, once you quit, you're never going to see them again anyway, right? Might as well give it a try.

Careful... it might change everything.

Seguimos pensando..