Dominic Packer & Jay Van Bavel (@powerofus): "Why many of the biggest companies—and universities—in the world are creating the wrong incentive system"

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Dominic Packer & Jay Van Bavel

The Power of Us

Why many of the biggest companies—and universities—in the world are creating the wrong incentive system

This Rank and Yank system uses fear and individual competition as motivators. While it creates a compliant workforce, there is little evidence of its success. If anything, it costs fortune in performance reviews and leads employees to "feel unmotivated and disengaged". We believe that leaders at these organizations are overlooking something fundamental about human nature — our groupish nature.

Dominic Packer & Jay Van Bavel

Mar 13

at

12:51 PM

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