Undergraduate teaching can reveal how many people imagine a linear career path, followed by graduate school, prestigious jobs, and later family and leadership roles. Real life is messier, requiring firsthand learning. Management is framed as less like precise orchestral direction and more like conducting during rehearsals when things go wrong. Off-key notes become key lessons and sources of opportunity. Incentives are presented as an unreliable way to shape behavior, because human actions depend on norms, unintended consequences, and multiple motivations. Motivation can include intrinsic drive and reputational factors, not only extrinsic rewards. The material suggests starting with deeper drivers rather than relying on incentive changes.
"As Roland Bénabou and Jean Tirole explained in a landmark paper, there are forms of motivation beyond extrinsic benefits including, most notably, intrinsic motivation and reputational factors. For example, artists often toil for years with little mater"
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