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The Talent Advantage
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The Talent Advantage

by Stefan Stremersch
September 2025
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
7h 21m
English
Kogan Page
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11 What makes innovation talent tick?

To move your people, you need to understand what makes your talent tick. What are the incentives for your people to develop their innovation talent? How can you encourage them to innovate? Luckily, we know a lot about how incentives work, even applied to innovation specifically, from fields such as decision science, economics and management science. Here is what we know and how to turn it into practice to achieve your goals.

Meaning trumps money

Decision scientists have shown that when it comes to innovation it is vital that people engage because they envision it to be fun and meaningful, rather than because they are going to get paid in salary, promotion or formal recognition. The former is called intrinsic ...

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