How to Motivate People: Skip the Bonus and Give Them a Real Project

Social experiments have upended almost everything that modern management takes as a given.

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Science has managed to reveal some crazy things that fly in the face of almost every commonly accepted management practice. Here's the latest: Rewards for top performers lead them to worse performance. And if you want to foster innovation, bonuses won't work either. Rather, it's all about letting people slip from under line management and strike out on their own, on projects they care about.

Dan Pink...