It's a double-edged sword.
Competitiveness between organizations sparks creativity and progress.
However, competitiveness within an organization breeds egoism, hostility, jealousy, and animosity.
In my opinion, we should motivate ourselves not by our co-workers accomplishments or performance, but rather by our own personal goals and ambitions.
Passion is the cornerstone of self-motivation.¹
¹ you have my permission to quote that at parties
Jim, Thanks for the feedback. I probably shouldn't assume that everyone knows where 1st Place gets a new car, 2nd place gets a set of steak knives, 3rd place gets fired is from (most of the folks in my office didn't) but it is of course from the movie Glengary Glen Ross (http://www.amazon.com/Glengarry-Glen-Ross-Jack-Lemmon/dp/B00005JKG9/sr=8-1/qid=1171046560/ref=pd_bbs_1/105-0018248-7634075?ie=UTF8&s=dvd) which is one of the best movies of all time and its about real estate sales. Everyone should watch that at least once.
On a technology matter, does anyone know how to turn the above link into somethign shorter/cleaner? I don't know how to do that.
Bill, Sales boards can be a good thing in most cases because it is a simple visual way to measure and motivate. It is in front of you and other agents and in a normal office without the boards many agents fall off their selling game towards the end of the month...the sales board can help keep them focused on finalizing another deal when otherwise they may have taken a break. Sales boards also create an awareness among office or team members and they can use it go gauge where they are in comparison to others. I have seen offices with newer agents placed on an entirely different board from the veterans which is actually a nice way of rewarding the newer agents and it gives them some recognition.
well seems to me that friendly competition is fun but I once heard of a company offering $1000.00 to quit! seems that they would hire them, train and employ them. After a month they would have a meeting with the employee and offer them the $1000.00 quit bonus, if they left the company didn't feel they lost anything except an employee that would take the easy out!
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