{"id":4448,"date":"2011-06-14T05:30:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T10:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=4448"},"modified":"2011-06-09T13:55:07","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T18:55:07","slug":"why-carrot-and-stick-leadership-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/why-carrot-and-stick-leadership-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Carrot-And-Stick Leadership is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Are you like millions of others in America and around the world who dread Mondays and you think it’s because work is a necessary evil?\u00a0 Well, I’ve got good news for you.\u00a0 Work isn’t evil.\u00a0 Work is good.\u00a0 Work is virtuous.\u00a0 Work is what you were created for. <\/strong> It’s meaningless work and working around a bunch of jerks that destroys the scared space we call “work.”<\/span><\/p>\n

If you’re still working under the old-world paradigm of the carrot-and-stick boss – you know what I’m talking about – “if you’ll do this, then this will be the reward.” <\/em> And every time you perform, somehow the stick and the carrot are extended just a little further out.\u00a0 It’s leadership by manipulation<\/strong>.\u00a0 Yeah, that day is gone.\u00a0 And if you’re a manipulating leader, you’re going to be gone too, very, very soon.<\/span><\/p>\n

What has taken its place?\u00a0 Well, I think you’ll be glad to know that you’re now treated like a human being, an intelligent, thinking individual; someone with not only gifts and talents but intellect and feelings and worth.\u00a0\u00a0 You’re now being challenged to seek out and embrace work that matters, work that makes a difference in the world; work that heals a hurt or lifts a load or rights a wrong; work that is about being obsessively, compulsively preoccupied with the needs of others.\u00a0 And oh, by the way, an economic system that can be put in place to make sure you get handsomely rewarded.<\/span><\/p>\n

I could point out a lot of different companies that I know personally who operate this way.\u00a0 They challenge their employees – they usually call them team-members – with ways in which they can change the world, make peoples’ lives better, and even save people from misery, pain, destitution, and even suicide.\u00a0 Yeah, that’s how far it’s gone.\u00a0 We are values-based, virtue-driven companies these days. <\/strong> And I, for one, thank God for the change.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you’re using the carrot-and-stick, throw it away while you can.\u00a0 If the carrot-and-stick is being used on you, begin right now and set your own liberation date to be free from that bondage.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you like millions of others in America and around the world who dread Mondays and you think it’s because work is a necessary evil?\u00a0 Well, I’ve got good news for you.\u00a0 Work isn’t evil.\u00a0 Work is good.\u00a0 Work is virtuous.\u00a0 Work is what you were created for. It’s meaningless work and working around a … Continue reading “Why Carrot-And-Stick Leadership is Dead”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4448"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=4448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}