A study of nearly 20,000 workers found one personality trait consistently higher in managers, supervisors, and entrepreneurs than in everyone else. It was not charisma or IQ. It was Conscientiousness. Research has a way of confirming what experience already knew.
A meta-analysis of 128 controlled studies found that tangible recognition rewards consistently undermine the intrinsic motivation of the people receiving them. Most organizations have spent years building exactly the wrong system.