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Evidence | Unicorns | Bullshit: 3 Areas Of Team Building & Leadership Effectiveness

Mike Cardus

There are secondary sources (academic journals, peer reviewed articles, existing Body of Knowledge, etc…) that are applicable and provide evidence for what you are doing. For an example of a Unicorn; * Pay-For-Performance FAILS * Incentive Based Compensation, misses the mark. Or this example from Bob Suttons Blog.

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It’s Time to Make Business School Research More Relevant

Harvard Business Review

This is because promotions and salary increases at most business schools are primarily based on professors’ number of peer-reviewed, “A” journal publications (or those appearing in journals with the highest impact factor, or frequency of citation-counts). Where has this stuff been hiding?”

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A Fairer Way of Giving Credit Where It’s Due

Harvard Business Review

We have tested an approach that has seemed to address these issues in our jobs in the nonprofit and government sectors, where financial incentives can be scarce and other forms of recognition, therefore, are especially important. When hiring, focus more on track records and less on pedigree.

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How to Design a Corporate Wellness Plan That Actually Works

Harvard Business Review

While financial incentive programs are popular, they may not achieve long-term behavior change; instead, they may lead to resentment and even rebellion among workers. This is because many traditional incentive programs are grounded on the assumption that people will behave in certain rational ways if paid to do so. Asking for help.

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Make Your Knowledge Workers More Productive

Harvard Business Review

So large-scale re-engineering programs, productivity drives, and changes to the incentive system are unlikely to work: they can easily be resisted, ignored or gamed. The team leaders could not offer more money, but they could offer employees opportunities to develop their careers, new technologies to work on, and new colleagues to work with.

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How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics

Harvard Business Review

” “Can you tell me about four people whose careers you have fundamentally improved?” ” “Describe a few of your peers at your company and what type of relationship you have with each of them.” Take the incentive out of “climbing the ladder.”