I try to motivate people and align our individual incentives with organizational incentives. And then let people do their best.
A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking.
Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending expansion of perverse incentives and lobbying.
We need to align the incentives so that colleges have an incentive to keep down their costs... to graduate students on time with degrees in areas where they're going to be able to get jobs and going to be able to pay back those loans.
Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there...
Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they've lost all incentive because we've given them too much money.
Lets take away the incentives to do 'to' patients and instead create incentives to do 'for' patients, to be 'with' patients. We don't need to do comparative effectiveness trials to see if that works; we can just ask patients.
Like any other tool for facilitating the completion of a questionable task, rewards offer a "how" answer to what is really a "why" question.
People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices
When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives.
There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
The only way of life satisfying the need of all times must be motivated by incentives and rewards – materially, morally and spiritually because motivation for work is produced by incentives and rewards only, an aspect built into the fundamental spe...
Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.
Students get the message bout what adults want. When 4th graders in a variety of classroomswere asked what their teachers most wanted them to do, they didn't say, "Ask thoughtful questions" or "Make responsible decisions" or Help others." They said, ...
To summarize, using money to motivate people can be a double-edged sword. For tasks that require cognitive ability, low to moderate performance-based incentives can help. But when the incentive level is very high, it can command too much attention an...
The best incentive for an artist are the harshest criticism
The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.
I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.
