Chapter 2

Getting Past the Five Myths of Employee Motivation and Performance

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There is always an easy solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.

—H.L. Mencken

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Executives and managers, in their determination to get better performance from their employees, do a lot of dumb things. At times, it seems as if efforts at organizational improvement occur more by accident than through a clear understanding and intelligent implementation of how to consistently get results. Why do organizations do such a hit-or-miss job at getting things ...

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