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"A second way to
manage people is to create competition. Pit people against one another
and many of them will respond. Post all the grades on a test, with
names, and watch people try to outdo each other next time. Promise a
group of six managers that one of them will get promoted in six months
and watch the energy level rise. Want to see little league players raise
their game? Just let them know the playoffs are in two weeks and
they're one game out of contention.
"Again, there's human nature
at work here, and this can work in the short run. The problem, of
course, is that in every competition most competitors lose. Some people
use that losing to try harder next time, but others merely give up.
Worse, it's hard to create the cooperative environment that fosters
creativity when everyone in the room knows that someone else is out to
defeat them.
"Both the first message (the bully with the heart of gold) and the second (creating scarce prizes) are based on a factory model, one of scarcity. It's my factory, my basketball, my gallery and I'm going to manipulate whatever I need to do to get the results I need."
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"Professional education systems create specialists by teaching their students when to think.
"The professional conveyor belt promises special rewards to the few
who rise above the masses and follow a different assembly line (still
conformist, but based on incentives rather than punishments) to gain
higher compensation, status and perks. Too often the result of both
belts is widespread mediocrity and many dysfunctional lives and
societies.
"For great education to occur, students must choose to study long,
hard and effectively because they genuinely love it! It must be their
passion and their delight. When students are deeply in love with
studying, they learn in "the flow" and they absorb massive amounts of
information, knowledge, understanding, connections and wisdom in a very
short time."
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