Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. Praise in private with you personally? With increasing technology in communication and more employees deciding to work from home, especially in social marketing networks — will there not be low demand for job seekers? If this happens, will there still be needs for more research on motivation models? If we really want to get out of this economic mess, if we really want high performance on those definitional tasks of the 21st century, the solution is not to do more of the wrong things, to entice people with a sweeter carrot, or threaten them with a sharper stick.
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