In this clip from an April 2010 Teleseminar on Reaping Professional Success, Dan Ariely details one of his many Behavioural Economics experiments - this one measures the difference in performance between workers whose projects are either acknowledged, ignored, or shredded immediately.
What do these results mean in the knowledge economy? Is meaning of work more important than efficiency? What do the teachings of Adam Smith and Karl Marx say about this matter?
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