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How do incentives really work? with Uri Gneezy

WorkLife with Adam Grant

CHAPTER

The Mixed Signals That Incentives Send

Incentives may boost productivity to a much more effective degree than they promote creative thinking. In other words, maybe it's easier to motivate people with incentives to work harder than it is to work smarter. If you don't use incentive, which is fine in some cases, you need to understand that other incentives are in place.

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