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Eliminate Slogans, Exhortations and Targets

Deming Institute

Watch this short video for a great story illustrating this problem in action: There may be cases in which incentives work only as intended, but I suspect they are relatively rare. In those cases where the slogan is actually used as a hammer to blame employees when results disappoint is when it does cause damage.

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