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Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it. You punish something, you get less of it. And our businesses have been built for the last 150 years very much on that kind of motivational scheme.
Daniel H. Pink
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Daniel H. Pink
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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