Watching the world cup over the next few days will show everyone what happens when your sources of motivation shift in balance slightly. When your fear of failure outweighs your desire to succeed, performance is likely to suffer. When the desire to succeed is the primary driver and fear of…

Messrs Mahut and Isner at Wimbledon are showing us what happens when you find and ideal performance match... their strengths seem to nullify each other's strengths, and their weaknesses can't be exploited because the opponent doesn't have the appropriate skill to make the most of the achilles heel that is…

We seem to be having a bit of a "we love Dan Pink" time at the moment... however, this is being shown for the creativity as well as the message. This is so worth while watching... enjoy

Watch Ian Bell and Eoin Morgan when they're batting and you'll probably be able to lip read these two world class cricketers saying to themselves, "watch the ball". Now, to the uninitiated it might seem a little beneath these top class performers to have to remind themselves of something so…

Do you think Fabio Capello will be asking the England players any of the following questions over the next few weeks? • Crouchy, what’s the score going to be against the US? • Wayne, which minute you’re going to score in? • Franky, which foot are you going to score…

Dave and Wendy Ulrich have been blogging on the Harvard Business Review blog. Go have a look and see if there's anything here that can help you create more meaning for people at work. This fits in very nicely with the 3Cs approach to motivation that we've been working with…