Management things I learned at Imgur

Re:Management things I learned at Imgur by ryandrake on Sunday June 21, 2015 @03:57AM (#9752622)

I would imagine that people motivated mainly by money are among the easiest to manage. There's no guesswork there. Give them clear, measurable performance goals, with dollar signs attached to each one. Done.

In my view, money also is a good fallback motivation, if you can't figure out exactly what it is that someone wants out of his job, or you can't provide it. Truly, I've probably had only one job in my life where I honestly thought "I wouldn't stay here NO MATTER WHAT they pay me!"

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Re:Management things I learned at Imgur by erikb on Sunday June 21, 2015 @04:23AM (#9752674)

I'd say I'm not a money oriented person. E.g., looking at the income statistics of my city I think that my chances are >50% if I find any other job.

But I think what you say would highly motivate me anyway. People like numbers and making numbers bigger. That's why people feel bad if they don't get enough Facebook likes. So if you give people clear numbers and a path to increase the numbers they will be motivated to do it, even if they don't care what the numbers stand for.

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Re:Management things I learned at Imgur by cosmolev on Sunday June 21, 2015 @05:39AM (#9752783)

  I've probably had only one job in my life where I honestly thought "I wouldn't stay here NO MATTER WHAT they pay me!"

What was this job?

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