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Rewarding Failure

6 July, 2020 by James Lawther 9 Comments

Should you reward success? Rewarding success is the obvious thing to do. Slaps on the back, public praise, bonuses and honours come easily to us. People expect to be rewarded for good performance.  If you reward success then people will strive to give you more of it. It would be madness to reward failure, or […]

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