Aligned Motivation

Science and experience tells us that motivation is driven by factors such as personal benefit, survival and power. But it’s also true that these factors live in a larger context that includes the survival of the entire ecosystem.

Once any system recognizes that its personal benefit is limited by the health of its ecosystem then its motivation can make a subtle but essential change towards sustainability. We call this new motivation enlightened self-interest. Also explored in Part 1(A) of the Poverty Story.

Enlightened self-interest makes it possible to accelerate change for the good of all. It can also bring the stakeholders in society to aligned motivation as we describe in our “Double Hybrid Model” illustration.

This is essentially what Level UP has achieved inside our organization – where our people, our tech, our philosophy all work together for the benefit of all. This model is emerging across our world and will play a key role in “Ending Poverty in One Generation”.