Rethinking Carrots & Sticks: The Science of Motivation | The Kojo Nnamdi Show

I am loving this show.

I attend 2 conference calls a week for work. In one, the moderator encourages discussion. He teases us in a humorous way. He's not reluctant to compliment our work.

In the other, a different moderator sounds as though he's intoning from on high to us peons. Much as I try, I cannot react well to that yap, yap, yapping from on high. You should do this; you should do that - as though we're not working hard already.

I'm human, your guest would suggest? Ok. That's all right with me then.

Thanks for the great show!

I agree with the above comments.

I just saw a survey on job satisfaction. Turns out the people who still have jobs are increasingly dissatisfied with them (and thus less productive/creative). And this is an economic climate that SUCKS!

I don't know the source of managment belief that employees are expendable, interchangeable and a mere expense vs strength for the business, but it is clear that this is a dominate thinking process in many large businesses. Otherwise, people wouldn't find shrinking paychecks, lessened benefits and the like.

Optimistically, when we ultimately emerge from the Great Recession, those staid, backward looking firms will find their talent leaving in large numbers for those firms who are more humane. And more successful!

These are the firms I'm seeking and, I'm sure, so are many other repressed creative workers.