The dilemma here is that as boss, you have probably accepted the corporate goal (bring the project home by next April for less than $750,000), and accepted it wholeheartedly. If your staff isn’t just as enthusiastic, you’re disappointed. Their lack of interest might seem almost treasonous to you. But hold on here: Is it possible that your own strong identification with a corporate goal stems from something beyond mere professionalism? Isn’t it true that some artful engineering on the part of your boss and the powers above has made that corporate goal line up exactly with one of your own?
