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I am intrigued by the seemingly counterintuitive notion that organizations could best encourage effective individual performance by rewarding team performance.

• burkaman 7y ago
  Knowing I'm going to let other people down is a lot more motivating to me than knowing I'm going to let myself down. I don't know how common this thought pattern is.
• p_l 7y ago
  It's the oft-forgotten detail from the original "10x developer" study - it had a whole lot more about importance of teamwork
• gopalv 7y ago
  > seemingly counterintuitive notion that organizations could best encourage effective individual performance by rewarding team performance This works in both directions, unfortunately & almost always accelerates your current direction. If the team is starting to fall behind, the employees who are the high end of the scale start to lose motivation or develop resentment towards those who are not pulling their weight. Rational decisions can sometimes be the wrong one in a prisoner's dilemma.
• andrekandre 7y ago
  i think one other idea, is that you want a team to function as a team, and not necessarily a group of "individual contractors" (who are in it only for themselves) as it were... when they feel motivated (and also helped) by those around them, thier individual contribution is buyuoed and multiplied by those teammates (feeling of belonging, trust and camaraderie, can be huge boosters of individual output) (at least this is my experience, you mileage may of course vary)