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Leaders Beware: Avoid These Recognition Hazards

The Practical Leader

Why did I need to keep saying it then?” ” Last week I wrote about our basic human need to be appreciated and recognized. Numerous managers realize that need and at least try to provide some sort of recognition. But financial incentives don’t get many to excel. “I married her, didn’t I?

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Insider Insight on Price Fixing | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

In the heat of battle, there is a hell of an incentive to discount for easy market share, even by the most disciplined of marketers. 5 principles of simplicity via @ matthewemay [link] Humans need a reminder RT @ hunterwalk Good design teaches. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. Bad design lectures.

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Pursuing Entrepreneurial Companies: Grad Advice | In the CEO.

In the CEO Afterlife

When a company has clout, there isn’t much incentive to re-invent. 5 principles of simplicity via @ matthewemay [link] Humans need a reminder RT @ hunterwalk Good design teaches. With the exception of a few new-age notables, university graduates are not going to find entrepreneurial thinking within giant enterprises. April 2011.

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Setting Expectations On Behaviors You Value: 5 Pointers

QAspire

Incentives are most often counterproductive. “Strategic Reward&# as referred here is not just “carrot and stick&# - but the idea was to map the intrinsic human need to be validated/appreciated with managing expectation. Best, Tanmay By John Hunter , October 11, 2010 @ 4:44 pm coaching is very important.

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5 Signs Your Organization Might Be Headed for an Ethics Scandal

Harvard Business Review

Rather, we see a “tone at the top” underpinned by widespread willful blindness , toxic incentives, and mechanisms that deflect scrutiny. ” This perception of existential competitive threats can be used to justify the creation and maintenance of toxic incentives , and it will undermine any efforts to raise concerns.

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Huawei: A Case Study of When Profit Sharing Works

Harvard Business Review

At the time, Zhengfei had no idea what a stock option system was – not being familiar at that time with the types of incentives systems developed in the West. Huawei’s ESOP can satisfy both human needs. To meet these demands, Huawei has recently adopted a long-term incentive plan called Time-based Unit Plan (TUP).

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Make Sure Your Employees’ Emotional Needs Are Met

Harvard Business Review

One senior executive suggested they focus on cash-based incentives. She cited Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs , explaining that salaries and benefits would provide people with food and shelter – physiological needs. The reality is that human needs can’t be neatly arranged into a pyramid.

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