Paul Hebert compares Incentives vs. Recognition – We Like Big Bangs and We Cannot Lie

New FOT PIC Paul Hebert

Tony Stark said it in the movie Iron Man

“That’s how Dad did it, that’s how America does it, and it’s worked out pretty well so far.”

He was referring to the new Jericho missile and its destructive power.  After that quick intro he waves to the soldier manning the missile, the soldier fires the missile and the mountains behind him disappear.  Wonderful stuff.  We like big bangs.

Now imagine the same scene but when Tony waves to the soldier, a single shot from a sniper rings out.

Not the same impact is it?

Read the whole post over at Paul Heberts I-2-I (an FOT contributor blog) 

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Paul Hebert
Paul Hebert is the Vice President of Solution Design at Symbolist. Paul’s mission is to humanize the business relationships needed to drive greater employee, channel and customer loyalty. His is dedicated to creating true emotional connections often overlooked in our automated, tech-enabled world. He is currently working to combine 1,000 posts on influencing behavior at his old site: http://www.i2i-align.com with his new team at Symbolist: http://symbolist.com. Paul is a recognized authority on incentives and performance motivation. Want to know what’s going to motivate your people to perform at their best and impact the bottom line? Want to know whether your service award program really means anything at all? And are there psychological principles that drive your employees’ behavior? Paul’s your guy… unless you fervently bow down to Maslow.

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