Ep. 26: Compensation - The ONLY Way to World-Class
A DEEP and foundational message: Life itself is a system of COMPENSATION.
In this episode, Andrew speaks plainly and directly to you from the Awakened Forest without any of the spectacle of a large public audience. He goes DEEP into the philosophical explanations of why Compensation IS your main System/Structure in creating a World-Class company. We live in a world of “Incentives and Disincentives”... and BOTH the Positive and Negative need to be used in a balanced system that will LAST! Emerson sets the frame, Munger lands the punch (“Show me the Incentive, and I’ll show you the Result”), and Reed goes about as far as any business person or philosopher has gone on the topic. And he gets practical… REAL -REALITY- What IS! Humans seek Purpose & Meaning over Money, so this is paramount…and bad or poor cultures will drive away Top Talent no matter how much you pay them…
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(00:00) Intro
In this episode, Andrew speaks plainly and directly to you from the Awakened Forest without any of the spectacle of a large public audience. He goes DEEP into the philosophical explanations of why Compensation IS your main System/Structure in creating a World-Class company. We live in a world of “Incentives and Disincentives”... and BOTH the Positive and Negative need to be used in a balanced system that will LAST! Emerson sets the frame, Munger lands the punch (“Show me the Incentive, and I’ll show you the Result”), and Reed goes about as far as any business person or philosopher has gone on the topic. And he gets practical… REAL -REALITY- What IS! Humans seek Purpose & Meaning over Money, so this is paramount…and bad or poor cultures will drive away Top Talent no matter how much you pay them…
Chapter Markers
(00:00) Intro
(02:18) Compensation as a profound life principle
(04:28) Incentives, disincentives, and human motivation
(06:50) Pain, accountability, and organizational reality
(08:06) Structural systems vs people solutions
(11:28) Compensation as a universal law of life
(12:59) Meaning, purpose, and the limits of money
(17:33) Financial pay vs psychic/job compensation
(18:43) Cause-and-effect and the transactional nature of existence
(24:54) The developmental value of pain and dissatisfaction
(27:10) Risk, effort, and earning true success
(30:11) Value perception and the psychology of reward
(33:20) Wealth as the ability to luxuriate in life
(35:42) Happiness, discipline, and earned satisfaction
(38:24) Helping others succeed as the path to success
(40:02) Compensation as a force that creates focus
(43:10) Early compensation system success stories
(44:30) Evolving compensation systems and people development
Song: Twisted World - andrew reed & the liberation
Album: As a Bird of the Air… (Trilogy I Album 1)
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Watch out for the next message, every two weeks on Fridays @ 7:01am (EST)!
“Show me the incentive, and I'll show you the result.”