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November 30, 2007

How to motivate workers

Not everyone agrees on how to motivate workers. I’m still trying to decide which of these ideas sounds most correct:

Charles Coonradt, author of The Game of Work, gives five reasons why games are better than jobs:
1. Feedback is much more frequent in games, 2. there’s always a score to “reinforce the behavior you want repeated,” [...]

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Filed under Business, Main, Management, Motivation

Tags: charlescoonradt, gameofwork, joelspolsky, Management, Motivation, oreilly

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