You're much better off creating positive rewards, complimenting people for acting correctly, rather than punishing them when they act incorrectly.
You have a very poor neighborhood. You have students that are required to go to school. They have no money, no habit of work. What if you paid them in the afternoon to work in the clerical office or as the assistant librarian?
I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics; in life; in spirituality; in business; just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see.
If you give people something they want, they'll come and see it.
I don't understand the rewarding of behavior that is less than classy. I don't get it.
I don't think we should pay people to fight terrorism. I would be amazed if they asked for anything in return.
The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.
When I was a little girl - if I could have - I would have gone a year without washing my hair. I hated it, to the point where my sisters had to pay me to wash my hair. I think, after experiencing that, I like to wash it every day.
Find people who believe the world will be better when your company succeeds. That's an incentive that money can never buy.
People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success.
You've got to change incentives for good behavior as opposed to just disincentivizing bad behavior.
If you want people to do something new, you have to make it rewarding for them creatively and financially.
Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that.
