Theories in Action
Motivation is quite a difficult hurdle to jump over in a new company such as this where there is little to no pay for most of the employees. This is exacerbated by the fact that the product that we make already exists, and there is a vast amount of competition with their respective benefits. This is once again added upon the fact that there is no centralized office where people meet daily, and therefore people work on their own with meetings around the city. So how can you motivate people to do their job, and do it well?
This is all done through excellent leadership. Specifically, the leadership that needs to be done is highly effective innovative leadership. Innovative leadership is where you take a pre-existing idea or product and bring new attention to it and puts a new spin on it. This style of leadership has been highly apparent as of recently, with our company going into funding rounds and needing a boost in every sector of the company. The way the leadership of our company does this is to make us look at our product as something a lot more than just a ticketing app, but a platform that enables people to bring people together and host events that would have been previously impossible. In addition, they highlight the fact that artists and venues alike are being scammed out of the money they deserve from companies like Eventbrite and Ticketmaster. So not only are we enablers, but we are also giving back to artists by allowing them to take a larger percentage of the money home to themselves, and for the general public by reducing their ticket prices.
Before I address your reflection, let me remind you that you have to choose a category for each post. I can tell this is a theory in action reflection, but as you did not categorize it, it doesn’t automatically populate in the blog. PLEASE go back to your posts and edit them, selecting a category, so that they populate not the blog. Now to respond to your reflection, what you seem to address has more to do with how the company interacts with the broader public/with clients (e.g. individuals/organizations wishing to use the product ‘to bring people together,’ individuals who want to attend the events, artists, etc.). I would be interested to hear if the innovative leadership is also employed within the organization, to motivate the employees (as you’ve indicated motivation within is difficult). If so, it would be good to provide concrete examples of behaviors, etc. within the organization that illustrate elements of innovative leadership. Again, the more specificity, the better equipped you’ll be this fall to complete assignments.