The main principles about motivation are:

• Understand people’s needs and values. In particular:
  • be aware of basic psychological needs that drive people
  • when there are various people involved to reach a goal, try to involve people that have shared values.
• Create a vision, then quickly move on to the execution phase.
• Use rewards and positive reinforcements or find ways to quickly satisfy the needs.
• Balance positive vs negative feedbacks.

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