Does money motivate or distract people?
Here are two fascinating talks from the TED series about the strategies and manipulations that lead people to perform at their best, and that surprisingly cause them to fail.
I’m willing to bet that all of you, like me, assume that offering cash incentives helps people “win” at a task. And also that the known leaders and big thinkers in any group really know how to get things done.
Well, watch and learn:
I’ll give you ten dollars to finish your book faster.
Wait, is that what you wanted?
That’s totally what I wanted. Why are you the only one who picked up on this?
And by the way, I already finished my next book and turned it in last month, and now I’m working on my next next book. Ha! Take that!
You want $20?
Yes, twenty ought to do it. Thank you for your patronage.