Picture a situation where an employee is paid millions of dollars to work up to eight months per year. Moreover, their job is actually to play a kid’s game and to do so in front of thousands of (mostly) adoring fans. Conventional wisdom would say that’s a situation where no additional incentive would be required for the employee to do their very best, day-in and day-out.
Actually, that could not be further from the truth.
Owners of professional sports franchises realized a....