back in the 90's, I was acting as a lead engineer on a project I was on & we got an engineer fresh out of college......all the older guy were getting rather frustrated with him because even though he was extremely intelligent, he seemed lazy.......until I worked with him a little bit & gave him ownership of an area of the project that he was then responsible for. I remembered how that had made me feel as a fresh out engineer & applied it to him along with showing him the ropes & what all was expected with the overall picture of the project. Everyone ended up being very pleased with his work.

I was always the workaholic because I enjoyed my work along with it being a wonderful escape from a bad marriage.....but the social life at the company was great also....we had a racquettball club & a ballroom dancing club that we all got together for at lunch times. It wasn't a small engineering company, but it wasn't huge either.....but working & socializing together made for a much better environment & everyone seemed very enthusiastic to accomplish their work & when our project was actually implemented & was importantly functional in the for the military successes, it made the feeling of accomplishment even greater as part of a large team......think the work environment is also a large key in the attitude success.....problem now is that companies don't seem to value their employees as much as they used to & I think it makes the employees less willing to give their all to a company who will let them go at a moment's notice.....loyalty toward valuing the employee has changed & so has the employee's willingness to give himself to the company.