Just when you bought your brand new LED high definition and were all caught up with technology, new innovations in how you watch TV could make that brand new purchase obsolete...or at least maybe eventually...
On the Influence Insiders blog talk radio show this afternoon, a very basic yet potentially puzzling question was brought to surface:
What is an incentive?
Pondering this predicament made me think about coffee in the workplace. Many workers can't function without a hot cup of joe in their hands. Our office, like many other offices out there, provides free coffee to employees. It's not a major incentive, something minor, but a nice noncash motivator.
Within the last few weeks, a blog titled "10 Myths About Employee Incentive Programs" has circulated around the blogosphere and Twitter fairly quickly. Many people in our industry are already aware of the article, first seen on www.wisebread.com and then more recently posted on the AMEX-Open forum (where it was seen by most people). Several responses from the industry have already surfaced, including a good blog post from Paul Hebert.