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Unexpected Leadership Lessons that Mobsters Can Teach Lawful Leaders

Leading Blog

We discovered through a rigorous analysis applying 70 years of Nobel-prize winning economics that Mobsters have leadership teams and structures that enable their success despite continuous efforts to disrupt them. Relentless offers five transformative leadership lessons that leadership training programs must incorporate and promote.

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Is It Time For A Peer-Reviewed Bonus System?

LDRLB

Incentive compensation systems often seem just as likely to disappoint employees as to motivate them.

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

Mike Cardus

Within the team building and managerial leadership world there is so much information and Jargon Monoxide ( wish I came up with this phrase Bob Sutton shared what this means on his blog) that everyone feels overwhelmed. For an example of a Unicorn; * Pay-For-Performance FAILS * Incentive Based Compensation, misses the mark. Bob Sutton.

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Cracking the Behavior Code

Great Leadership By Dan

Economists argue that things will improve when we get the incentives right. He is the former Chief Scientist of Express Scripts, the nations largest pharmacy benefits management company, and has authored and published more than 70 peer-reviewed papers. Educators tell us that better behavior requires better information.

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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. So what does?

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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. Leadership Leading teams Managing people' When hiring, focus more on track records and less on pedigree.

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How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics

Harvard Business Review

Take the incentive out of “climbing the ladder.” Frequent question-and-answer sessions with leadership. For years Facebook has held weekly Q&A sessions where anyone at the company can ask a question and get an answer directly from our CEO and the rest of our leadership team.