He built a step counter app and, in a field experiment, got 97 volunteers to deposit (the stick) or earn 10 euros (the carrot). They had to take 20% more steps than their usual daily average.

In this article, I will delve into the details of the carrot and stick approach, compare it with Douglas McGregor’s Theory X and Y, and explore their effectiveness as management tools.

The human donkey requires either a carrot in front or a stick behind to goad it into activity. It is fashionable at the moment to argue that the carrot is the more important of the two: ...

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Enter what I call the “Stick and the Carrot” Approach: Psychology 101, Parenting 101, Peacemaking 101. It’s a simple idea, but, oddly, it has never been tried in Israel. What do I mean?

We’ve all heard the idiom about the carrot being better than the stick as a tool for motivation but did you ever wonder where it came from? Turns out it originated with an old story about a mule ...