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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 […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: beliefs, Bob Sutton, incentives, mixed messages, motivation, reinforcing behaviour, test and learn

Everybody Cheats

15 October, 2018 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

Everybody Cheats

Who can you trust? When I was a small boy, the most exciting thing in the world was a day trip to London with my father.  I was brought up in a field in deepest Yorkshire.  The big smoke was amazing.  It had museums, skyscrapers, underground trains, toy shops, galleries and ice cream.  Best of […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: cheating, human nature, incentives, measurement, performance management, reinforcing behaviour, targets, trust

Build a Tower Build a Team

19 September, 2018 by James Lawther 1 Comment

TED Talk Tom Wujec This is a talk about a powerful little game with some far-reaching implications.  It challenges the way we manage and implement projects. First Tom Wujec shows how we get caught up in a management world of plans, priorities and proposals. Then he demonstrates how much more effective we could be if […]

Filed Under: Best of the Web, Blog, Tools & Techniques Tagged With: diversity, incentives, innovation, marshmallow challenge, TED talks, test and learn, Tom Wujec, video

The Puzzle of Motivation

3 September, 2018 by James Lawther 1 Comment

who've been studying motivation have given us this new approach.

TED Talk Dan Pink Improving employee performance is as easy as 1, 2, 3: Write an objective Define a metric Provide an incentive Then set people off to hit the goal.  It is just a question of building motivation. In his entertaining TED talk Dan Pink explains why this approach destroys motivation  instead of creating […]

Filed Under: Best of the Web, Blog Tagged With: beliefs, command and control, Daniel Pink, human nature, incentives, motivation, performance management, targets, video

The Pirate School of Management

21 August, 2018 by James Lawther 1 Comment

Pirate Management

I think Mrs Lawther has a crush on Johnny Depp I watched Pirates of the Caribbean last night. If I have seen it once I have seen it twenty times… My 10-year-old daughter loves watching it My 15-year-old daughter loves watching it Even my wife loves watching it… I suspect that they enjoy it for very […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: culture, employee ownership, incentives, management style, recruitment, video, workplace conditions

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