

How To Pay Your Employees To 10x Their Productivity (And Impact)
8 snips Sep 1, 2025
Discover innovative ways to boost employee productivity through performance-based compensation. Learn how aligning incentives with company goals can drive success and enhance engagement. Gain practical strategies to create effective compensation structures that transform workplace dynamics. Plus, explore the intriguing concept of leveraging commercial real estate and small businesses as a pathway to financial independence.
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Use Performance-Based Compensation
- Build performance-based compensation (PBC) to align employee incentives with business goals.
- Tie variable pay to outcomes so employees' best interests match the company's outcomes.
Compensation Drives Behavior
- Compensation is the biggest driver of behavior in organizations.
- Aligning pay with outcomes reduces risk of misaligned incentives and fraud.
Tax Code As A Giant Incentive System
- The U.S. tax code illustrates large-scale performance-based incentives.
- Governments use compensation-like incentives to shape citizen behavior toward policy goals.