Enthusiasm is contagious. If you're positive, enthusiastic and excited about your work, chances are great that your staff will feel the same way too. All managers who are successful at managing their staff are highly motivated as well. Managers who are themselves hard workers to the point of maximum commitment to their jobs are the best motivators. And employees like to feel they're living up to the high standards the boss sets, especially when they see their boss give the maximum towards making the department or company highly successful.
Many people are victims of status-quo thinking.
They do things just because that's how they've always done it, and they assume that it's the best possible method. They resist change as they find that the idea requires a change in their behaviour, and that makes them uncomfortable. Almost any activity can be improved with just a little thought and some extra effort. Change is indispensable to progress and progress comes only with change. Examine new ideas with the uninhibited curiosity of a child.