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We All Work at Enron Now

Harvard Business Review

Incentives shape human behavior — and overcounting benefits and undercounting costs is a surefire way to blunt our incentives to innovate, to take on ambitious goals, and create real value. Innovation atrophy. Corporations would fail at innovating, creating, and engaging. Let's call it Enronia, for short.