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wake up on the wrong side of the bed (idiom) |
wake up feeling irritable, tired or unhappy |
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Dreading Dreading the inevitable reality of having to go to work? |
anticipate with great apprehension or fear |
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Ponder Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos claims it makes employees stop and ponder what is it they really desire. |
think about (something) carefully, especially before making a decision or reaching a conclusion. |
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hungry for something (idiom) If an employee isn’t truly hungry for success, then Bezos doesn’t want them to be there. |
strongly desire something |
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in the long run He says, “In the long run, an employee staying somewhere they don’t want to be isn’t healthy for the employee or the company. |
over a long period of time in the future |
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slacking off |
being lazy; not working very hard |
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weed out This weeds out the folks who are not a good fit and further motivates those that refuse the offer. |
remove unwanted people or things |
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a good fit |
someone who is well suited to a job or task |
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counterintuitive Author Daniel Pink also has a counterintuitive theory about money and motivation. |
contrary to intuition or to common-sense expectation (but often nevertheless true). |
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incentivized You would think those who were incentivized would work faster, but that wasn’t actually the case. |
provide (someone) with an incentive for doing something. |
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carrot or the stick Pink says the carrot or the stick approach to external motivation doesn’t suffice. |
reward or punishment |
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on to something And is Amazon on to something by paying employees who don’t want to be there to leave? |
correct or going in the right direction |
