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Here's your success mentor, Darin Hardy.

So I mentioned in yesterday's session how motivating others is a lot more complex and

nuanced than you might expect.

Often, it is contrary actually to what it is that you think or what it is that you have

been taught.

To wrap up this week talking about how to positively motivate others, I will share

one small example about what I mean by nuanced and unexpected.

Many years ago, four of the world's most renowned human behavior scientists conducted lab

experiments on the effectiveness of large bonuses and the impact it had on work performance.

One of their main findings was that when the bonus size became very large, performance

decreased dramatically.

That was just a lab result.

So they wanted to see how this might play out in the real world and in the real marketplace.

So they engaged the mega semiconductor manufacturing company Intel in their experiment.

It took place at an Intel production facility where they assembled the actual computers chips.

They ran four different motivational incentives.

One was a monetary bonus.

On the first day of their work cycle, each employee was greeted by a message from their

boss that read,

Good morning.

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