Power, Incentives & Behavior
How incentives, status, bias, and politics shape organisational behaviour.
Success Quotes: Survivorship Bias, Attribution Errors, and Why They Mislead
Alignment Quotes That Hide Disagreement: How Consensus Language Obscures Conflict
Alignment Quotes That Need Translation: What Corporate Speak Actually Means
Quotes About ‘Let’s Take This Offline’
Quick Sync Quotes: What They Reveal About Meeting Dysfunction
Incentive Quotes: What They Hide About How Behavior Actually Changes
Why Quotes About Change Miss the Point: Incentives, Not Inspiration
Fear in Organizations: Not a Barrier to Overcome, But a Signal of Actual Threat
Truth in Organizations: The Incentive Structure Behind Silence and Convenient Narratives
Leadership Quotes: Why They Fail in Practice and What They Actually Reveal
Power Quotes: What They Reveal About Authority and What They Hide
The Problem With "Pulse Surveys" and Sentiment Scores
Sarcasm, Power, and Why Sentiment Analysis Gets Them Wrong
Why Sentiment Analysis Optimizes for Comfort, Not Truth
Sentiment Analysis Can't Detect Fear, Politics, or Silence
When Leadership Uses Sentiment Analysis to Avoid Accountability
Sentiment Analysis as Organizational Self-Deception
Employee Sentiment Analysis Is Not Psychological Safety
Why Measuring Employee Sentiment Often Makes Culture Worse
How Accountability Is Weaponized
The Cost of Blame Without Authority: When Organizations Punish What They Prevent
When Strategy Competes With Incentives: Why Incentives Always Win
Why Execution Work Is Undervalued: When Organizations Reward Planning Over Delivery
Quotes About Leadership That Make Executives Uncomfortable
When Process Exists to Avoid Conflict: Why Organizations Build Rules Instead of Resolving Tensions
When 'Visibility' Becomes Surveillance: How Organizational Transparency Transforms Into Control
Middle Managers as Incentive Interpreters: How Organizations Signal What They Actually Value
Motivation Theories in the Workplace: Why They Fail in Practice
Motivation at Work: Why Most Models Fail
Workplace Mobbing: Why Groups Turn on Individuals
