The Incentives Lab Podcast
Every system is teaching people something. We talk about what.
Conversations on incentive design, behavioral economics, and the payoffs hiding underneath strategy. New episodes as they drop.
Latest · Episode 1
Episode One — Why Incentives Beat Strategy
The opening conversation of The Incentives Lab Podcast: why every strategy deck loses to the incentive system underneath it, how perverse incentives quietly form inside good organizations, and what leaders can redesign this quarter.
- —Culture is the residue of incentives — not posters, values, or offsites.
- —Most 'people problems' are payoff problems wearing a costume.
- —Measure the behavior you actually reward, not the one you announce.
- —Redesigning one metric can move an entire org faster than a reorg.