Bonus Your Staff Before Your Attorneys
In this great TED talk by author Dan Pink, he argues that while incentives improve people's performance on routine tasks, just the opposite is true when creativity or problem solving is involved. Incentives not only fail to improve performance on creative tasks, they diminish it. What's more, the larger the reward, the worse the performance. Might be something to think about when deciding just how to motivate lawyers.
Watch the entire talk (it is roughly 18 minutes), it is worth your time.
