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So you see, people do things for their reasons, not your reasons. Therefore, the trick is to provide them with reasons which appeal to them, for doing what you want them to do. Or, in other words, cause them to want to do what you want. Everybody is selfâ€"motivated; for examâ€" ple, the person who always comes late to work may be motivated to lie in bed rather than to get up and go to work. And yet, to make an; progress in this direction, one has to recognize the reality that it can‘t be done! That‘s right. You cannot motivate people. You can only create the environment in which they will motivate themselves. Michael Farraday, the inventor of the electric motor, wanted to get the support of the British Prime Minister, who at that By the countless number of articles, books and seminars on the subject, one can measure the strong desire that people have to motivate other people. â€" While all this was going on, while heroic Chinese students stand defiant against tanks and guns pointed at them by an embittered and decayâ€"filled reâ€" gime, while Iranians selfflagellate in demonstrative displays of grief for an ending era, I realized things were not so quiet here in Waterloo. Contrary to the quiet disinterest often attributed to this area, I recognized in Waterloo (and Kitchener) the seedlings of some very Think of the confluence of history upon June 3. In the history books, yet to be written, this weekend will garner a few extra words to accurately describe how the face of the Earth was altered. The Chinese government‘s answer to quashing dissension â€" shoot now so no one is left to answer questions later; the death, at 86 years, of the Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran‘s religious and military zealot; and the death of hundreds of Russians in a massive train wreck â€" the largest that nation has known. By gawd, but it was a busy weekend. Not here of course! â€" around the world. And they say nothing ever happens in Waterloo Comment Have you ever in your life seen anything so ridiculous as all those people falling all over each other to get the Dome completed by deadline so that the people attending the opening gala and Blue Jay opener wouldn‘t fall all over each other? Dome domos, hustling from site to city hall, tongues dangling, "yes, yes, that‘s done, what else before you give us your OK?" Workers at it all hours of the night, welding here, curbing there, filling planters around trees, testing sprinlg(ler systems and so on. Doing it all, so the Grand Show could come off as planned. Now, I‘m a big SkyDome fan, and can hardly wait to see it live and up front. But does anyone else wonder, as I do, what the safety factor is going to be like down the road on all those railings and ramps and other structures that were completed at 4 a.m. My entire life is one big deadline. I blame the SkyDome, and the circusâ€"like atmosphere surrounding its opening last weekend. Sometimes, those deadlines can drive you crazy The right environment Consider this for example: a conversaâ€" tion with a doctoral student studying the cause of Alzheimer‘s disease. The impeâ€" tus to find its cause is intensified by the slow but creeping approach of the baby boomers to seniorhood. The implications will be tremendous on the social system. Right now, it is verging upon impossible to find adeâ€" quate care for family members with this degenerative disorder. What will it be like when the onslaught of the everâ€"deâ€" The seedlings may only find some light humus to root to in my marginally furrowed brain mass, but I believe they too will alter the world, albeit less dramatically than the transpirations of June 3. exciting, and possibly nationally signifiâ€" cant events were planted. _ Now Farraday could have launched into an hourâ€"long harangue on all the things his invention could do, but he was wise enough not to do that. Knowing the key to motivation, all he replied was, "Someday you can tax it." Which won him Gladâ€" stone‘s support. â€" The false assumption that we can motivate people leads to equally false results. We may think we can motivate by time was William Gladstone. Farraday got an appointment with the great man and took with him his contraption of coiled wire and magnets. Gladstone took one look at it and asked, "What good is it?" You have to agree that last week, deadline, deadline, deadline was all you read and heard in the news. And as we set our watches and constructed Dome Opening office pools, I sat back and thought how my everyday existence is similarly dominated by deadlines. It‘s often referred to as time management, or defined lifestyle, but that‘s all garâ€" bage. What it is, is chaos, sometimes, but rarely, more organized than others. Without deadlines, I agree, you have total chaos. With them, you have slightâ€" ly less, because deadlines are only effective as guidelines, not as absolutes. under incredible stress? Just asking. Comment Isobel Lawson Geoffrey Fellows Perspective Rick Campbell ‘That‘s Life‘ Saturday‘s Toronto Sun, in typical Sun fashion, runs a colorful threeâ€"page spread on the man who, with a rash of sexual assualt charges, has dashed from at least three American jails and one Canadian crowbar hotel. In it, some wise Try this idea on for size. Everyone is well aware of the escape of Fred Merrill from the Don Valley jail, last week. Knowing he is on the lose gives new meaning to fear. Come the day when these laws change, and mass breeding is conducted using vials, it registers another scratch upon genetic diversity already affecting the dairy and beef industries. No you won‘t lose sleep over the issue, but what it translates to is the continual erosion of what makes this world tic â€" diversity. Here‘s another thought. Canada, at this point, does not allow breeders of Standardbred horses to freeze semen for artificial insemination. Wait, this isn‘t stupid, hear it out. manding babyboomers find all the comâ€" fortable things in the world will not stop Alzheimer‘s from encroaching upon their lives. Another afternoon, a natural deadline out at a media day golf tournament. ‘"We‘re going to start early, have to get finished before the rains come." That deadline, I might add, came and went, The only permanent motivation comes from an environment in which people can satisfy their personal needs, which are intangible. That is why we may find people, all earning the same money, some in work that they hate and doing a very poor job, while others do work they love and do it very well. This goes to show that misemployment is a much greater problem than unemâ€" ployment, all because we have failed to provide the suitable environment for selfâ€" motivation. We all have different, but identifiable, needs. Some are motivated by an environâ€" ment that confronts them with chalâ€" The other night, my wife had an appointment at 5:30 p.m. and I had one at 7:30. "Be back about 6:50 p.m. that‘ll give us a good 15 minutes to eat dinner before you have to leave, right?" _ will improve motivation offering more money, a company car, club memberships or other material rewards; but these have no lasting effect and are soon taken for granted. Or we may think we can motivate by fear â€" "shape up or ship out." But people operating under threat will do only what they have to do and nothing more. "Don‘t forget Rick, we‘ll need that report by Wednesday, big meeting was the deadline, remember?" Uh huh. Or, "any word on that new brochure, Rick, I thought the deadline for it was the end of April? Hey, if they can build the SkyDome on time, surely we can get a little brochure out." Rrrrrrrrr. And it just hasn‘t been happening at work either. But this week it seemed é{’é;):;vaere I turned, I heard the word. As soon as one involved person ignores thsm, there goes the neighborhood. WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY JUNE 7, 1989 â€" PAGE 7 Isobel Lawson is a reporter with the Waterloo Chronicle It just goes to show how far some obscure tidbits of information can go Nothing nearly as dramatic as China. Iran or Russia, but still pretty important to someone â€" a baby boomer. a Stanâ€" dardbred breeder. Merrill or a Waterloo book reviewer All well and fine. I believe in giving the public all the information it can tolerate. but I wonder what Mernill thinks should he read this story about himself. It seems a little disconcerting when police cannot keep this man in hand, to say to a public which is already at Merrill‘s mercy that he‘s as good as having committed murder. Seems. like a lot of Sun stories, kind of pointless To top off this weekend of wonder. a fellow reporter bought at a garage sale a horror novel, Weaveworld, written by English novelist, Clive Barker, with a testimonial boldy printed inside taken from a Waterloo Chronicle review cop says Merrill is quite capable of commiting murder Rick Campbel! is the marketing director of the Fairway Group‘s suburban newsâ€" papers I suppose I was all deadlined out 1 needed some disorder in my life. Got it Monday night. Went home from work. and did absolutely nothing. Except watch the Blue Jay opener. from the SkyDome. Yikes. The pizza delivery man complained about the delivery deadline he had. We figured out that if we don‘t build our deck before June 24 weekend. it‘ll never get done until the snow flies A note from the bank tells me I have to this or that date before they automatically renew my RRSP option. And five mi nutes before closing, the garden centre announces it is five to nine and the store closes in five minutes and bring all your purchases to the front. 1 dropped mine and brought my vexation instead violated without incident 642, Cambridge, NIR 5W 1. providing effectiveness training to business and industry Geoff Fellows operates the Human Re source Development Institute P O Box lenges; others need one that offers the psychic rewards of egoâ€"satisfaction, recogâ€" nition and social approval; still others require a stable environment. calling for group effort. We can see the greatest motivation in those who have chosen their own environâ€" ment, the entrepreneurs who are stmving toward a goal that is so much bigger than themselves that they are gripped with the desire to attain it and have the powerful emotional impetus to realize their poten tial abilities to the full. Unfortunately, most people are unable to express these personal needs when looking for a suitable job, but now there are means for identifying them precisely