Monday, April 11, 2011

Do We Need Incentives for Innovators?

This is a nice piece on the value - actually its lack of value - of providing extrinsic, monetary incentives to "drive" innovation. Mention is made of the value of "observable work" in making the contributions of participants in workflow visible to all who care to look. There are many others who have pointed this out in similar contexts, including Alfie Kohn, Dr. Russel Ackoff, and W. Edward Deming.


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