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There’s No One System for Paying Your Global Sales Force

Harvard Business Review

It provides control over sales incentive spending around the world, and it simplifies plan management and administration.” ” Others argue that a single global incentive plan per sales role doesn’t work: “Sales is a local function. Diversity makes a global sales incentive plan impractical and dangerous.”

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

Deming believed that we can improve worker performance only when we improve the entire system they work within. And he believed that managers wrongly apply incentive pay plans, forced rankings, and all sorts of carrots and sticks to create the illusion of control without solving root performance problems. Eliminate MBO.

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