<a title="Mike's Twitter Profile" href="http://twitter.com/thoughtleaders">Mike Figliuolio</a> offered me the opportunity to guest post over on the <a title="Thought Leaders Blog" href="http://thoughtleadersllc.blogspot.com/">Thought Leaders Blog</a>.  I wrote about the need to care <em>about</em> people before you earn the right to <em>expect</em> their best effort.  In the context of motivation, the post refers to the motivation gap: the gap between what motivates different people on the same team.  Trust bridges the gap, but you have to CARE about people to actually close the gap.  Check out the post for <a title="Four Easy Steps to Motivating Your People on Thought Leaders Blog" href="http://thoughtleadersllc.blogspot.com/2011/03/4-easy-steps-to-motivating-your-people.html">the four steps to close the motivation gap</a>.