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Drive:
…companies pay a steep price for not extending their gaze beyond the next quarter.
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Drive:
This is the nature of economic bubbles: What seems to be irrational exuberance is ultimately a bad case of extrinsically motivated myopia.
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58 |
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Drive:
…when contingent rewards aren’t involved, or when incentives are used with the proper deftness, performance improves and understanding deepens.…
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Drive:
Greatness and near-sightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one’s sights and pushing toward the horizon.
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Drive:
Without a healthy baseline, motivation of any sort is difficult and often impossible.
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Drive:
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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Drive:
…’as long as the task involved only mechanical skill, bonuses worked as they would be expected: the higher the pay, the better the performance.’
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Drive:
We have TPS reports to fill out and boring e-mail to answer and all manner of drudge work that doesn’t necessarily fire our soul.
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Drive:
A job that’s not inherently interesting can become more meaningful, and therefore more engaging, if it’s part of a larger purpose.
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Drive:
…the best strategy is to provide a sense of urgency and significance – and then get out the talent’s way.
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