As a manager it's your job to know what motivates your people and help get them there accordingly. And keep them motivated, all the time, every day, every week

As a manager it's your job to know what motivates your people and help get them there accordingly. And keep them motivated, all the time, every day, every week, which you imply in the previous paragraph but I feel needs to be repeated explicitly. I recently just accepted a new job which is better for a variety of reasons, but there really was no reason I should have been looking for a new job given what I was doing at the time I resigned. I had sent my resume out months ago when my now former team started disbanding during a shakeup, leaving me as the only developer on the team. The implications of having a development team with no developers should be obvious.