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Read and discover the best diagrams and maps of how people control and manipulate you.

1. NEGATIVE STANDARDS

High standards that are impossible to meet.
Motivate with guilt and shame.
Turn work environments into hell.
Foster sabotage.
Destroys some people, gets other people to quit or rebel, and turns some people into puppets or slaves.
Prophets of punishment as motivation.

2. CRITICAL STANDARDS

High standards that are never met.
No matter how good or how well a project or task is completed, there is always something wrong.
Even a project completed perfectly could still have been done faster.
Always striving never arriving.
Prophets of coulda, woulda, and shoulda as motivation.

3. NEUTRAL STANDARDS

No actual or real standards.
Everything is considered good because it exists.
The least effort is equated with the most effort.
The poorest work is equated with the best work.
Discourage the best and help the worst to be lazy.
Prophets of high self-esteem and slobism as motivation.

4. PUSHY STANDARDS

High standards that are not reachable in a reasonable amount of time.
Always wanting more.
Always expecting more.
Never satisfied.
Expectations are never met because expectations are always increasing faster than resources or skills are.
Prophets of dissatisfaction as motivation.

5. POSITIVE STANDARDS

Highest possible standards tempered by acceptance of results.
Seeks perfection but understands the reality that imperfect people, tools, and materials allow only approximation.
Works long and hard but knows when to accept the results and move on to the next project.
Prophets of inspiration and encouragement as motivation.