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How Tax Incentives Can Boost Employment In Rural Areas

The Horizons Tracker

New research from UCL and the University of Oslo explores how tax incentives can provide economic stimulus for rural areas, thus boosting employment and prosperity. The last few years has seen considerable attention given to the economic and social inequalities within nations, and particularly between cities and rural areas.

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A Creative Way to “Fix” Incentives?

LDRLB

Incentives have been with us for a long time. As a tool drive performance, there is nearly 100 years of solid argument for their use in organizations. As industrial age work transitioned to knowledge work, many began to question whether or not incentives would stay effective. David Burkus is the editor of LDRLB.

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How Incentives Can Help Us Overcome Procrastination

The Horizons Tracker

A team from Harvard, Yale and BYU have developed a tool that they believe will help to overcome that, at least in terms of financial decision making. Procrastination is an enemy of productivity, as we put off uncomfortable tasks until a later date, such that if often never gets done.

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Perverse Incentive Compensation

Tony Mayo

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Change: Driving Transformation in Modern Organizations

Rich Gee Group

Central to this phase is resource stewardship – discerning and marshaling the required human talent, technological tools, and fiscal assets. Realigning incentives and rewards with the envisioned behaviors acts as a powerful catalyst, ensuring the durability of the change.

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Change Your Habits

Great Leadership By Dan

Most of them tell me that they spend most of their time looking at performance indicators - Summaries of key metrics - Spreadsheet data - Other dashboard tools. Systems and incentives were created to meet a certain target of average impressions per hour. Monitoring performance metrics is a good thing.

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Weekly Round-Up: Future of the Comms Function, Internal Comms Tools for 2021, Why Vaccine Mandates are Good for Business, Bond with New Hires Remotely, Incentives to Get Employees Vaccinated

leaderCommunicator

Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts. When defining the ‘best’ structure of a communication function, there is not a clear answer or a one-size- fits-all approach.

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