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The Surprising Power of Autonomy for Improving Organizational Performance

Your Brain at Work

CHAPTER

The Power of Unexpected Rewards

The most positive change tends to get about 20 to 25 percent of people actively fighting it and this is the no good deed goes unpunished principle right. Even a tiny bit of unexpected reward over when they work even if it's only 10% of their hours can make a huge difference so you might say hey look this is harder with factory workers obviously but there's still an element of it. But try to give unexpected rewards over when people work and give them a little bit more control that's a very powerful one yeah.

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