Both strategies are known to work - Carrot and Stick. Why? Because the psychological Traits and Needs of all humans are not the same. Most people who build te

Both strategies are known to work - Carrot and Stick. Why? Because the psychological Traits and Needs of all humans are not the same. Most people who build teams have a sense of their own Needs and Traits and pick strategies/team members that align/compensate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revised_NEO_Personality_Inventory#Personality_dimensions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revised_NEO_Personality_Invent... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs There is a distribution of Traits/Needs that you need to be aware of within any population, group, team etc. If you are not aware of those variations and randomly create groups and try to impose strategy, what works and fails will always remain mysterious.