behavior-hack
Craft the Job You Have
People wait for a better role to be handed to them. The research says reshaping the job they already have moves engagement more than a new title does. It starts with one question in your next 1:1.
motivation
think-piece
The Reward Trap
Paying people for behaviors they were doing for free makes them do it less, not more, once the pay stops. Decades of research on this. We keep building programs that ignore it.
research-drop
The Progress Principle
Teresa Amabile analyzed 12,000 diary entries and found small wins beat everything else for motivation. Not bonuses, not praise, not strategy. Progress on meaningful work wins.