JERRY MCGEE HAS A STORY he likes to tell about how not to launch an incentive campaign...

Fifty-two percent of salespeople who qualify for incentives at their companies feel that they have little to no chance of winning.

SOURCE: Maritz Incentives survey

ALTHOUGH THERE HAS BEEN a lot of buzz about the Sarbanes-Oxley act over the last couple of years, in reality, many meeting planners are finding the act to be nothing more than a minor disruption...

A RECENT SURVEY of incentive planners by the Incentive Federation shows that about one in four respondents runs an online incentive program — a significant gain of 19 percent from the last survey, completed in 2003. Larger companies have been the...

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“DON'T UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF DEMOTIVATION.” That's the warning of E.L. Kersten, PhD, author of the newly released The Art of Demotivation (2005, Despair Ink). In his sarcastic and scathing style, Kersten, a former university professor who had...

Who said you needed horses to play polo? At the Ritz-Carlton Lake Las Vegas, meeting attendees play using Segway Human Transporters and soft foam mallets and balls. Segway Polo is becoming popular as a two-hour teambuilding activity because it...