thread: 2006-03-06 : Unpopular Idea #2: Punish the Loser
On 2006-03-07, Gregor Hutton wrote:
I feel I should put something in here that goes *me too* ... so, uh, people management courses tell you a surefire way to demotivate someone is to punish their success or reward someone's failure—you instantly encourage failure and not giving a rat's ass about succeeding.
My management trainer was real big on rewarding success, for the simple reason that it makes you want to succeed, it's a motivator. And that's something deeply wired into our brains. I think.
