> Isn't the incentive getting paid? Yes, that is my point. If I get paid more if your project fails because there is more budged for my project. My motivation

> Isn't the incentive getting paid? Yes, that is my point. If I get paid more if your project fails because there is more budged for my project. My motivation is against collaboration. I do it for the money. And the company, thru forcing me to compete with my colleagues for budged, and bonuses, gives me an incentive to not help, or in the worse case scenario, to sabotage their work. And managers cannot do much about it if there is a strong economic incentive to be hostile to your colleagues.