If you want people to perform better, you reward them, right? Bonuses, commissions, their own reality show. Incentivize … - Daniel H. Pink

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If you want people to perform better, you reward them, right? Bonuses, commissions, their own reality show. Incentivize them. . . . But that's not happening here. You've got an incentive designed to sharpen thinking and accelerate creativity, and it does just the opposite. It dulls thinking and blocks creativity.

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