The Power of The Motivator

       It says that no one motivates anyone and that all motivation must come from within. But think about the times when you have been at your best. Was it not due in large part to the influence of some inspiring person? Perhaps it was a teacher who knew how to pull something extra from you and got you so excited about a project that you stayed up most of the night reading, or a boss who could make work fun and had a knack for putting together a team in which people found themselves producing beyond their usual capacities. Wellington reportedly said that when Napoleon was on the field, it was, in balance, the equivalent of fighting against another 40,000 men. The fact is that we can by highly motivated by the right leader.

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        When France fell to Hitler in June of 1940, it seemed that for the second time in 25 years the lights were going out all over Europe. Germany immediately began preparations for an invasion of the British Isles, and the prospects for successful resistance looked very bleak. The Soviet Union stood aside, the United States was far from being ready to enter any war, and most military experts predicted that England, poorly armed and poorly prepared without taking the measure of a 65-year-old politician who, after an erratic and frustrating career filled with failures, had finally been handed the post of prime minister in May 10. The seven remaining months of 1940 were a pivot of modern history. England – and perhaps the whole Western world – owes its existence to the ability of Winston Churchill to breathe hope into a dispirited and frightened nation during those months.

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         To appreciate the power of the motivator one need only picture the families of Britain as they gathered in their living rooms and listened to Churchill thunder out from their radios:

          The Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us on this island or lose the war . . . .

           Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: This was their finest hour.”

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Looking back on England’s heroic defiance of Hitler, most would agree that indeed it was England’s finest hour. But that heroism could have lain dormant in the British people had not Churchill been so successful at galvanizing their will.

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