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Management isn't about walking around and seeing if people are in their offices.
It's about creating conditions for people to do their best work.

Management isn't about walking around and seeing if people are in their offices. It's about creating conditions for people to do their best work

But keep in mind one ginormus caveat: Repeated "now that" bonuses can quickly become expected "if-then" entitlements - which can ultimately crater effective performance.

Extrinsic rewards can promote bad behavior, create addiction, and encourage short-term thinking at the expense of the long view

Genuine motivation: automomy, mastery and purpose

"What is true is that mixing rewards with inherently interesting, creative, or noble tasks - deploying them without understanding the peculiar science of motivation - is a very dangerous game."

Ine who is interested in developing and enhancing intrinsic motivation in children, students, etc., should not concentrate om external-control systems such as monetary rewards.

Reward can deliver a short-term boost - just as a jolt of caffeine can keep you craking for s few more hours. But the effect wears off- and , worse, can reduce a person's longer-term motivation to continue th ñe project.

The performance of the task provided intrinsic reward.
The joy of th task was its own reward.