Incentivize
verb
To encourage someone to do something through rewards or penalties.
The government is trying to incentivize companies to hire more graduates.
Often appears as...
- incentivize productivity
- incentivize behavior
verb
To encourage someone to do something through rewards or penalties.
The government is trying to incentivize companies to hire more graduates.
Often appears as...
- incentivize productivity
- incentivize behavior
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Pro Tip 1/3Positive Reinforcement
Use 'incentivize' when rewards are given to cause a desired behavior.
Schools incentivize attendance with prizes for perfect records.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Deterrent
It can imply using penalties to discourage unwanted actions.
Increased fines are used to incentivize drivers to follow speed limits.
Pro Tip 3/3Business Context
Often used to discuss strategies in business or economics to promote actions.
The tax breaks incentivize corporate investment in renewable energy.
Pro Tip 1/3Positive Reinforcement
Use 'incentivize' when rewards are given to cause a desired behavior.
Schools incentivize attendance with prizes for perfect records.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Deterrent
It can imply using penalties to discourage unwanted actions.
Increased fines are used to incentivize drivers to follow speed limits.
Pro Tip 3/3Business Context
Often used to discuss strategies in business or economics to promote actions.
The tax breaks incentivize corporate investment in renewable energy.
Pro Tip 1/3Positive Reinforcement
Use 'incentivize' when rewards are given to cause a desired behavior.
Schools incentivize attendance with prizes for perfect records.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Deterrent
It can imply using penalties to discourage unwanted actions.
Increased fines are used to incentivize drivers to follow speed limits.
Pro Tip 3/3Business Context
Often used to discuss strategies in business or economics to promote actions.
The tax breaks incentivize corporate investment in renewable energy.
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Where good ideas come...
they turn into something larger than the sum of their parts. So in a sense, we often talk about the value of protecting intellectual property -- you know, building barricades, having secretive R and D labs, patenting everything that we have so that those ideas will remain valuable, and people will be incentivized to come up with more ideas,
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Rory Sutherland: Sweat...
It was simply to encourage the inoculation of children by, not only making it a social event -- I think good use of behavioral economics in that, if you turn up with several other mothers to have your child inoculated, your sense of confidence is much greater than if you turn up alone. But secondly, to incentivize that inoculation
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Why specializing early...
the idea that a head start, whether in picking a career or a course of study or just in learning new material, can sometimes undermine long-term development. And naturally, I think there are as many ways to succeed as there are people. But I think we tend only to incentivize and encourage the Tiger path,
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The way we think about...
the more money you can make. But we don't like nonprofits to use money to incentivize people to produce more in social service. We have a visceral reaction to the idea that anyone would make very much money helping other people. Interestingly, we don't have a visceral reaction
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Inside the bizarre world...
where some people see bigoted propaganda as being edgy or being dangerous and cool, and people see basic truth and human decency as pearl-clutching or virtue-signaling or just boring. And the social media algorithms, whether intentionally or not, they have incentivized this,
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Ink made of air...
we could incentivize him to give us this pollution and make inks from it, and turn it into even more valuable products. Now, pollution, as we all know, is a global killer. We can't claim that our ink will solve the world's pollution problem. But it does show what can be done
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How civilization could...
I mean, if you could reduce the number of people who are incentivized to destroy the world, if only they could get access and the means, that would be good. In this image that you asked us to do you're imagining these drones flying around the world with facial recognition.
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How can we solve the...
While governments are looking for ways to incentivize antibiotic development, these programs are still in the early stages. Countries around the world will need to do much more— but with enough investment in antibiotic development and controlled use of our current drugs,
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Is Your Perfume Made...
If we are able to protect the trees in the wild and replenish the wild populations, Then I think the trade should be incentivized. Actually, that's interesting. So you think that if the trade is incentivised,
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Stopping the brain drain...
world would love to not see people die or suffer unnecessarily from illnesses that they could be prevented from I live under the premise that all lives are of equal value we need to incentivize
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Where good ideas come...
they turn into something larger than the sum of their parts. So in a sense, we often talk about the value of protecting intellectual property -- you know, building barricades, having secretive R and D labs, patenting everything that we have so that those ideas will remain valuable, and people will be incentivized to come up with more ideas,
Video examples
Rory Sutherland: Sweat...
It was simply to encourage the inoculation of children by, not only making it a social event -- I think good use of behavioral economics in that, if you turn up with several other mothers to have your child inoculated, your sense of confidence is much greater than if you turn up alone. But secondly, to incentivize that inoculation
Video examples
Why specializing early...
the idea that a head start, whether in picking a career or a course of study or just in learning new material, can sometimes undermine long-term development. And naturally, I think there are as many ways to succeed as there are people. But I think we tend only to incentivize and encourage the Tiger path,
Video examples
The way we think about...
the more money you can make. But we don't like nonprofits to use money to incentivize people to produce more in social service. We have a visceral reaction to the idea that anyone would make very much money helping other people. Interestingly, we don't have a visceral reaction
Video examples
Inside the bizarre world...
where some people see bigoted propaganda as being edgy or being dangerous and cool, and people see basic truth and human decency as pearl-clutching or virtue-signaling or just boring. And the social media algorithms, whether intentionally or not, they have incentivized this,
Video examples
Ink made of air...
we could incentivize him to give us this pollution and make inks from it, and turn it into even more valuable products. Now, pollution, as we all know, is a global killer. We can't claim that our ink will solve the world's pollution problem. But it does show what can be done
Video examples
How civilization could...
I mean, if you could reduce the number of people who are incentivized to destroy the world, if only they could get access and the means, that would be good. In this image that you asked us to do you're imagining these drones flying around the world with facial recognition.
Video examples
How can we solve the...
While governments are looking for ways to incentivize antibiotic development, these programs are still in the early stages. Countries around the world will need to do much more— but with enough investment in antibiotic development and controlled use of our current drugs,
Video examples
Is Your Perfume Made...
If we are able to protect the trees in the wild and replenish the wild populations, Then I think the trade should be incentivized. Actually, that's interesting. So you think that if the trade is incentivised,
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Stopping the brain drain...
world would love to not see people die or suffer unnecessarily from illnesses that they could be prevented from I live under the premise that all lives are of equal value we need to incentivize
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Joshua Cohen
American Writer
I don't like being victimized by a machine or by other people's demands on my time. I become resentful by feeling forced or incentivized to live a life I don't want to live. That rage in general prevents me from entirely becoming enslaved by technology.
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Zachary Levi
American Actor
I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics; in life; in spirituality; in business; just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see.
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Zac Goldsmith
British Politician
Green policy is about triggering a shift to a cleaner way of doing things. To be effective, it needs to incentivise the right behaviour, for example through tax breaks, and that needs to be paid for by disincentives on polluting behaviour.
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Jochen Zeitz
German Businessman
Governments have a unique opportunity to incentivise corporations so that they can accelerate their evolution to a more sustainable economy through more sustainable practices and products.
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Naveen Jain
Indian Businessman
I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.
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Jack Monroe
British Journalist
It would be better to incentivise people into work with secure jobs and decent wages, than to try to starve them into submission.
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Elizabeth Esty
American Politician
We have to look at loan forgiveness to incentivise young people to pursue degrees in areas where we know we need help.
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Joel Salatin
American Author
We only want autonomous collaborators that are incentivized to make or break their own income.
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Ryan Frazier
American Businessman
The U.S. should incentivize energy production instead of penalizing it.
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Ralph Northam
American Politician
I want to incentivize people to really have good health.
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Joshua Cohen
American Writer
I don't like being victimized by a machine or by other people's demands on my time. I become resentful by feeling forced or incentivized to live a life I don't want to live. That rage in general prevents me from entirely becoming enslaved by technology.
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Zachary Levi
American Actor
I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics; in life; in spirituality; in business; just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see.
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Zac Goldsmith
British Politician
Green policy is about triggering a shift to a cleaner way of doing things. To be effective, it needs to incentivise the right behaviour, for example through tax breaks, and that needs to be paid for by disincentives on polluting behaviour.
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Jochen Zeitz
German Businessman
Governments have a unique opportunity to incentivise corporations so that they can accelerate their evolution to a more sustainable economy through more sustainable practices and products.
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Naveen Jain
Indian Businessman
I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.
Quote examples
Jack Monroe
British Journalist
It would be better to incentivise people into work with secure jobs and decent wages, than to try to starve them into submission.
Quote examples
Elizabeth Esty
American Politician
We have to look at loan forgiveness to incentivise young people to pursue degrees in areas where we know we need help.
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Joel Salatin
American Author
We only want autonomous collaborators that are incentivized to make or break their own income.
Quote examples
Ryan Frazier
American Businessman
The U.S. should incentivize energy production instead of penalizing it.
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Ralph Northam
American Politician
I want to incentivize people to really have good health.
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