> Find a company with a mission you can get behind, which should help motivate you to excel, and thus have a sense of accomplishment, and ultimately be happier.

> Find a company with a mission you can get behind, which should help motivate you to excel, and thus have a sense of accomplishment, and ultimately be happier. The company mission exists to guide decision making. Employee motivation and happiness comes from understanding that a job exists to pay for a fulfilling life High performing people can choose where they work. Here's how you can attract them to your company: - Make their job reasonably challenging. Their accomplishments should look good on a resume. - Give them reasonable autonomy on how they work and who they work with (hiring). - Enable a fulfilling life, whether on the job or out of the job: Reasonable and predictable work hours, good working environment. - Don't make them pretend to drink the kool-aid. In fact, keep the kool-aid in a corner where people have to go out of their way to drink it. Having guiding principles on how to do business is fine, just don't pretend like someone's life motivation is to change the world through quantum-AI-enabled-crypto-retargeting-adtech. - What makes me in particular go to work everyday? I like my coworkers and becoming better at my craft. - There's no shortcut for a good working environment. Focus on having the right people/incentives/culture. Perks and offsites only go so far and won't fix your company.