The greatest enemy of innovation may be an ill-advised reverence for the status quo. And nothing fuels organizational status quo more insipidly than entrenched, unchallenged, long-standing incentive systems. If you are on a path to improve innovative thinking and behavior in your organization, and you find yourself running into trouble, the very first place you might want to look is: your incentive system.
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To read the original article: Five Ways Incentives Kill Innovation - Forbes
