Why people will work for you -- Timothy Butler

Timothy Bulter is Harverd Business School's director of career development programs as well as the cofounder of Peregrine Partners, a career-assessment and executive-development firm.


Why people will work for you – Timothy Butler

Diana’s lost in her job. Diana has lost their previous passion for the job.

Let’s consider the other side of the coin. Imaging yourself as a manager.

The relationship between fear and control is important in understanding the attempt to motivate.

To become a leader who harness the full talents of people who report to you, though, I would suggest you must give up control, sacrifice some measure of your own power, and relinquish fear as a management tool.


Ceding control, delegating, and allowing another career to develop is really about diversity: about letting yourself truly experience another point of view.

Excellent managements truly see their employees – they know them well and can find the challenge that will tap their resourcefulness and channel their excitement to help the organization, at the same time feeding the employee’s growing sense of self.