Question
Would people think if they were not being paid to think?
Answer
It's the other way round. You have to pay people to NOT think.
Left to themselves, with none of the typical workplace incentives, people perform better, not worse. Dan Pink has extensively profiled the research that backs up this claim in Drive.
Particularly revealing is this study of the quality of non-commissioned work that people do in their spare time. Short answer: it is WAY better.
http://www.danpink.com/archives/...
Left to themselves, with none of the typical workplace incentives, people perform better, not worse. Dan Pink has extensively profiled the research that backs up this claim in Drive.
Particularly revealing is this study of the quality of non-commissioned work that people do in their spare time. Short answer: it is WAY better.
http://www.danpink.com/archives/...
The Russian-born duo – Geim is the mentor, Novoselov the protégé - won the [Nobel] prize for experiments that isolated graphene – a remarkable substance that is one atom thick, yet is 100 times stronger than steel.
Their laboratory, like most, has a heavy workload of research studies for which they’ve applied for grants, received financing and owe papers. But the Geim lab also carved out about 10pc of its time for what the physicists called “Friday evening experiments”. These were projects that didn’t have funding, and for which no scientific journal was expecting an article, but that simply appealed to their curiosity.