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I see the thumb from the office window. Giving all us office-workers a big thumbs up - maybe that was the idea behind it.

We probably need more than a 40 foot high sculpture of a thumb to get us motivated.

How come you don't have motivational coaches in most jobs. Anything outside of sports?

If we did have motivators how much better would we perform?

What would be the increase in 'productivity'? The ROI (return on investment) - of paying the coaches and the time spent getting coached?

Would such a method be more or less effective than other methods such as:

- more pay

- more breaks

- more perks (better / free coffee)

If you could change one thing (with the aim of the highest increase in productivity) what would you change?

I think for me it would have to be outsourcing all the boring, repetitive, administrative, secretarial-type tasks (getting someone less qualified and more interested in that kind of thing to do them) and to leave me free to concentrate on the more interesting, strategic, reflective, problem-solving parts of the job.

Ideally I would just spend time thinking about stuff and then communicating my thoughts / conclusions to other people in the organisation who would then act upon them.

Taking that to the extreme, I'd never have to do the same thing twice because that would be repetitive and hence boring. I would always be working on new challenges; new problems; new theories to propose and test out; new conclusions to reach; new actions / improvements based on those conclusions.