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For complex or conceptual tasks, offering a reward can blinker the wide-ranging thinking necessary to come up with an innovative solution.
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For routine tasks, which aren’t very interesting and don’t demand much creative thinking, rewards can provide a small motivational booster shot without the harmful side effects.
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The essential requirement: Any intrinsic reward should be unexpected and offered only after the task is complete.
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…studies showed that relationship conflict is generally bad for performance, but some task conflict can be beneficial: it’s been linked to higher creativity and smarter choices.
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Task conflict can be constructive when it brings diversity of thought, preventing us from getting trapped in overconfidence cycles. It can help us stay humble, surface doubts, and make us curious about what we might be missing.
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Creating psychological safety can’t be an isolated episode or a task to check off on a to-do list.
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When it comes to tasks that are part of their domain of expertise, great performers can keep performing at a high level even after their skills outside their domain have deteriorated.
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…however precarious your relationship may be, try to structure the negotiation as a side-by-side activity in which the two of you… jointly face a common task.
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If the organization’s message is especially inspiring, remarkable people will clamor for the chance to do even the hardest, most poorly supported tasks.
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One problem with afternoons is that if we stick with a task too long, we lose sight of the goal we’re trying to achieve, a process known as ‘habituation.’
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