With Everything You Do, In Fact, You

In Total, By Giving People $30 Bonus, Intel Lost Almost 5 Percent Of Productivity. That's A Lot. Now, Think About It. You Give Money Because You Think This Would Increase Motivation. It Actually Decreases Motivation.

There's Something About [cyclically] Doing Something Over And Over And Over That Seems To Be Particularly Demotivating.

We Usually Think Of Ourselves As Sitting The Driver's Seat, With Ultimate Control Over The Decisions We Made And The Direction Our Life Takes; But, Alas, This Perception Has More To Do With Our Desires-with How We Want To View Ourselves, Than With Reality.

Your Immediate Environment Is Comprised Of Coffee Shops, Supermarkets, Websites, Apps And All Kinds Of Things - None Of Which Have An Interest In Your Long-term Or Short-term Financial Well-being.

The Bad News Is That Ignoring The Performance Of People Is Almost As Bad As Shredding Their Effort In Front Of Their Eyes. Ignoring Gets You A Whole Way Out There. The Good News Is That By Simply Looking At Something That Somebody Has Done, Scanning It And Saying "uh Huh," That Seems To Be Quite Sufficient To Dramatically Improve People's Motivations.