There are two general ways of incenting your employees.
You can bribe them with a carrot or
you can beat them with a stick.

If you can find the right carrot,
that technique always works.

The stick has decreasing effectiveness
with the skill of the workforce.
With skilled labor shortages,
employees prefer to move rather
than suffer the beats.

Forget about using it in volunteer situations.
I was recently on the board of a charity.
The President would talk to us under only two situations.
The first was when she wanted something done.
The second was when she wished to reprimand us.
When I realized that I dreaded talking to the President,
I resigned.

I was working for carrots
and those carrots were scarce.

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