This is a very general question, and I’m not sure there’s good general answers that don’t make use of the specific types involved, such as ‘convincing people who like doing X to do X is easier’. (As opposed to ‘hard workers work harder/longer, so get hard workers.’)
In absence of an answer, I have speculation.
People don’t want to do new things.
Getting started is the hardest part of doing anything.
The end of a project is the hardest part.
Maybe people value successes—not in the sense of risk aversion, but maybe they want to a certain number of expected successes? .7+.7=1.4, so 2 things with a 70% chance of success, gets you an expected success.
Maybe people want a certain fraction of the projects they do to succeed? This would makes things difficult.
Maybe it’s the type of thing, or something about it (doesn’t sound interesting, requires acquiring new skills, or takes too long to produce value*).
Uhm, depends. I think many people are quite enthusiastic if they think they can contribute to something exciting and new, and then lose interest if turns out to be less exciting, less new, and is hard, boring work.
This is a very general question, and I’m not sure there’s good general answers that don’t make use of the specific types involved, such as ‘convincing people who like doing X to do X is easier’. (As opposed to ‘hard workers work harder/longer, so get hard workers.’)
In absence of an answer, I have speculation.
People don’t want to do new things.
Getting started is the hardest part of doing anything.
The end of a project is the hardest part.
Maybe people value successes—not in the sense of risk aversion, but maybe they want to a certain number of expected successes? .7+.7=1.4, so 2 things with a 70% chance of success, gets you an expected success.
Maybe people want a certain fraction of the projects they do to succeed? This would makes things difficult.
Maybe it’s the type of thing, or something about it (doesn’t sound interesting, requires acquiring new skills, or takes too long to produce value*).
*As compared to this. and things like it.
What are you trying to get people to do?
“People don’t want to do new things.”
Uhm, depends. I think many people are quite enthusiastic if they think they can contribute to something exciting and new, and then lose interest if turns out to be less exciting, less new, and is hard, boring work.