“In my experience, the thing that has the most significant impact on a movie’s budget–but never shows up in a budget–is morale. If you have low morale, for every $1 you spend, you get about 25 cents of value. If you have high morale, for every $1 you spend, you get about $3 of value. Companies should pay much more attention to morale.”
via Adaptive Path interview with Pixar’s Michael B. Johnson.
Wonder how this could translate for
- Filipino businesses?
- Filipino society in general?
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Well if by “spending on morale” we mean “make more GMA ‘Ekonomiya’ posters”, that certainly doesn’t help :P
I’m a bit skeptical. Pinoys claim to be among the “happiest” people in the world. You can actually see it. Even as floodwaters rise around them, naka ngiting-aso pa rin ang Pinoy.
If that happy face is indicative of high morale, then I wonder more now whether morale and financial prosperity really do have a strong correlation…
benign0,
Obviously, whatever high morale and happiness coefficient Filipinos possess do not translate to motivation towards improving their quality of life.
And no, I’m not talking about the need to oust a president to just to create a semblance of national “improvement”
morale is more about attitude
motivation is an ability to do something and to keep going even when things get difficult. (being part of a team or organization).
happiness is anything between contentment to intense joy.
you can have high morale at work— i.e. dedicated to get the job done/giving your work the best you got and be unhappy with your family life or vice-versa.
you can be down in the trenches, cold and tired (and obviously unhappy about it) but at the same time still ready to give it everything you got to get the job done.