Archive for September, 2009
Dan Pink gives an excellent TED talk about what does and doesn’t work with respect to motivating people to higher performance. It turns out that while traditional incentives (e.g., money) improve people’s performance on mundane well understood tasks, traditional incentives actually reduce performance for tasks that require creativity. So what incentives improve people’s performance in creative [...]
From California’s Office of the Attorney General we get the following tips to avoid being scammed. DON’T pay up-front fees. Foreclosure consultants are prohibited by law from collecting money before services are performed. DON’T ignore letters from your lender or loan servicer. Responding to those letters is your best bet for saving your house. DON’T [...]