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Unexpected Leadership Lessons that Mobsters Can Teach Lawful Leaders

Leading Blog

All firms must empower people with the knowledge and incentives to execute the task to benefit the organization. He is a globally recognized microeconomist and author of seven books and has taught organizational economics, accounting, and finance at the University of Rochester’s Simon Business School for more than forty years.

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Performance-Based Pay for Executives Still Works

Harvard Business Review

And indeed, the evidence does suggest that incentive-based pay can be damaging in many settings. The research that has been conducted on business leaders suggests that financial incentives can work… and quite often do. Thus, while poorly designed incentives (e.g. Clearly, for lots of jobs, no such measure exists.