During the past decade American work teams have delivered for senior managers and for business owners but not for their members, the ones who are doing the heavy lifting in corporate life, says sales, service & success coach, and best-selling author of 12 books and the audio program, "The Law of Large Numbers: How To Make Success Inevitable," published by Nightingale-Conant. According to this popular keynote speaker and radio and TV commentator, Under the rhetoric of team building, management enlarged jobs without proportionately enlarging pay, has downsized significantly, while introducing sort of behavioral control, through per-to-peer pressures, that is dramatic, unprecedented, and beyond accountability.

Being given the responsibility, the competence and tools to do a job well and the recognition of your peers, subordinates and superiors when the job is done well are the rewards by which most people are motivated.

Rewards which grow the individual or the team and recognition in the form of a public “thank you” that specifically details what the employee is being thanked for is a more powerful motivator than a truck load of turkeys.