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The incentive systems that have appeared and metastasized in businesses large and small confuse and corset both the leaders who shape and administer them and the people whose compensation they drive. Along the way, we’ve birthed an industry of consultants to design these systems and a parallel community to critique them. It can be exhausting and perhaps even unnecessary.
On Character
Stanley McChrystal
In short, literacy made the Spaniards heirs to a huge body of knowledge about human behavior and history. By contrast, not only did Atahuallpa have no conception of the Spaniards themselves, and no personal experience of any other invaders from overseas, but he also had not even heard (or read) of similar threats to anyone else, anywhere else, anytime previously in history. That gulf of experience encouraged Pizarro to set his trap and Atahuallpa to walk into it.
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond
My friend and I spent no more than 10 minutes discussing this piece. But in the months after our conversation, I continued to return to the author’s argument. I thought it was interesting because it represented a type of thinking error that you and I are likely to encounter in our lives. The form of the error is subtle, and therefore more difficult to detect; the best description I have for it is: ‘perfectly rational, logically constructed, and not really wrong — but not as useful or as powerful as some other framing.’
The Games People Play With Cash Flow
commoncog.com
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