Happy Workplays http://happyworkplays.com/cms Affective Management Consulting & Facilitation Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:01:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 How to Motivate People: Skip the Bonus and Give Them a Real Project http://happyworkplays.com/cms/2011/09/23/how-to-motivate-people-skip-the-bonus-and-give-them-a-real-project/ http://happyworkplays.com/cms/2011/09/23/how-to-motivate-people-skip-the-bonus-and-give-them-a-real-project/#comments Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:04:29 +0000 ReinderSchonewille http://happyworkplays.com/cms/?p=695 This post is not mine! Why? As what can I add to this….

Science has managed to reveal some crazy things that fly in the face of almost every commonly accepted management practice. Here’s the latest: Rewards for top performers lead them to worse performance. And if you want to foster innovation, bonuses won’t work either. Rather, it’s all about letting people slip from under line management and strike out on their own, on projects they care about.

Dan Pink lays all that out in which illustrates a talk he gave at the RSA (a kind of British version of TED):

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Watch this clip and you know why Alexander and I are doing our ‘jobs’……..for you guys!

 

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More information about Stuff? Have a look on this website!

]]> http://happyworkplays.com/cms/2011/02/10/story-of-stuff/feed/ 0 Secrets of success in 8 words, 3 minutes http://happyworkplays.com/cms/2011/02/01/secrets-of-success-in-8-words-3-minutes/ http://happyworkplays.com/cms/2011/02/01/secrets-of-success-in-8-words-3-minutes/#comments Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:20:18 +0000 ReinderSchonewille http://happyworkplays.com/cms/?p=366 I get many questions about “how to be successful” quickly! Well, follow Richard St. John and you know how to get there in a few minutes!

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