Some warm-up exercises

Motivation, talent, experience, wisdom, opportunities

Before you jump into the material, or at least at some stage in your research, try the following warm-up exercises to develop your thinking. Write down what you think:

Motivates a member of a government cabinet?
Motivates a member of a board of directors of a commercial organization?
Motivates a member of a board of directors of a non-commercial organization?
Motivates a middle ranking member of the above organizations?
Motivates a junior / low ranking member of the above organizations.
Motivates Madonna?
What has and does now, motivate Bob Dylan?
Motivated the great classical composers (maestros Bach, Handel, Mozart, Wagner, Chopin etc?)
Motivated great, truly remarkable figures from history, the simple clockmaker John Harrison, Galileo, Newton, Lord Nelson, Florence Nightingale, Gandhi, Mandela, or any other historical figures you are familiar with?
Using hindsight, what has made the above historical figures and the others you are familiar with great and their legacy so enduring?
Motivated, until fairly recently (due to the discovery of diamonds on their lands) the Saan or Bushman people of the Kalahari? (They are hunter / gathers whose lifestyle, in probably the harshest environment on earth, has not changed in the 20,000 years of their recorded history (their rock paintings.))
Motivates a Buddhist monk (everything means nothing and achieving nothing(ness) means everything)?
Motivates the members of the lowest income group in your society?
Motivates the members of the middle income group in your society?
Motivates the members of the highest income group in your society?
In general, motivates people in a developing country?
In general, motivates people in a developed country?
Look around you, draw on your life experiences and sense of humanity, and determine who you think are the happiest people in the world and why?