Engineering Incentives... and Misincentives

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Engineering Incentives... and Misincentives

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66 minutes

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Oct 3, 2022

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Inspired by the incentives at Google that apparently promote launching--but not sustaining--new products, Bryan, Adam and the Oxide Friends discuss the efficacy of various incentives... and the incentives that can lead to unintended and negative outcomes.

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Oct 3, 2022

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Titles in the series (100)

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Engineering Incentives... and Misincentives

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