Years before, Thompson had taught in a classroom with severely emotionally-disturbed students, where he became skilled at managing and motivating children.
"It's all about the human aspect," said Captain de La Nézière, who said that successful leadership in the army was about managing and motivating people.
But with submerged stock options, dot-com closings and widespread layoffs, comes the realization that the old issues of managing and motivating people never went away.
I've always run iamsocialwork on my own while working full-time, which has tested my ability to manage and motivate myself at times.
Much advice and attention is lavished on the exciting work of developing and articulating a vision for the business: the grand strategies for world domination, or on ideas for hiring, managing and motivating a great team.
"These are new stressors, like fear of the unknown, having to manage and motivate employees during very difficult times or keeping productivity up with a reduced work force," she said.
There are three reasons for scepticism about their chances.The first is that on-demand companies trying to keep the costs to their clients as low as possible have difficulties training, managing and motivating workers.
In a blog post, Puneet Agarwal, a partner at True Ventures who is an investor in tenXer, said that he chose to invest in tenXer because it used tools and a breadth of data to help manage and motivate employees in the workplace.
In my 15 years of teaching, from the South Bronx to the suburbs of Boston, I've found that there's a lot to learn about managing and motivating students that has nothing to do with success in professions outside the classroom.
