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https://www.alfiekohn.org/punished-rewards/ https://www.alfiekohn.org/punished-rewards/ "In this groundbreaking book, Alfie Kohn shows that while manipulating
by sourcepluck 3y ago
https://www.alfiekohn.org/punished-rewards/ https://www.alfiekohn.org/punished-rewards/
"In this groundbreaking book, Alfie Kohn shows that while manipulating people with incentives seems to work in the short run, it is a strategy that ultimately fails and even does lasting harm. Our workplaces and classrooms will continue to decline, he argues, until we begin to question our reliance on a theory of motivation derived from laboratory animals."
That was 1993. The people at Microsoft, as well as the author of this substack, would do well to have a think about Kohn's arguments.
- onos 3y agoMSFT stock up 100x since then. Edit: I guess this was your point, criticism was either heeded or was off.
- whywhywhydude 3y agoMSFT stock stagnated for more than a decade and jumped once they fired Ballmer and got rid of his stack ranking system. https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MSFT/microsoft/stock-price-history https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MSFT/microsoft/sto...
- gigel82 3y agoI heard it's back now (not sure if for this year only due to the reduced budget, or just ongoing).
- einpoklum 3y agoSure, and NFT prices went up times infinity. Doesn't mean that's benefited human society any.
- spamizbad 3y agoI’d argue Kohn’s follow-up work isn’t too far out of line with the author.
- sourcepluck 3y agoI've only read that one, but had been meaning to read more. It's been bumped up the list. Cheers