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Dan Pink on Candle Problems and Incentives
One of the problems we most often encounter in businesses is the unintended consequences caused by incentives and performance measures. This TED talk by Dan Pink makes a compelling case against using extrinsic motivators as incentives.
Dan is an entertaining speaker who really knows how to use narrative to get his point across. Enjoy!
The web's secret stories
Spotting the trends and patterns in a handful of anecdotes is not a difficult task. Cognitively, it is within our grasp as humans. However, raise the number of anecdotes beyond that and it becomes more of a mental stretch and you require the assistance of another "intelligence". It is for this reason that we utilise the SenseMaker suite of software when running projects that gather hundreds of stories. Now, imagine you could collect all the stories published on the web, and make sense of them in one visualization tool. This is exactly what Jonathan Harris does.
Grab a cup of coffee, sit back and switch your phone off for the next 20 minutes:
