A leader reflects on motivating globally distributed teams across different cultures. He argues people respond to both external rewards and internal fulfillment, and finds the real win in building one shared business culture that respects differences while uniting everyone toward the same goals.
What do you find the most rewarding aspect of managing high-performing global distributed teams to be? That people from all walks of life, no matter where they happen to be, they can be motivated both extrinsically and intrinsically in the work that they do on a daily basis by working across culture but in real time together in achieving collective goals. I just find that extremely exciting that you can be working with someone thousands of miles away that, that grew up in a whole different world, uh, and, you know, have somewhat different cultures, but you can create a, a single business culture where you appreciate and understand one another, but you're also collectively working towards the, the goal of the team.
