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Under the old Bear Stearns plan, top executives were required to donate 4% of their bonuses to charity. For Goldman, that would mean a charitable donation of just over $700 million. And that's if every employee is forced to participate, which is not likely to be the case. Still, even $700 million would be far less than the $12.9 billion Goldman received when AIG was bailed out by the Federal Government. And it's a fraction of what Goldman has been making in the market at a time when the government is spending trillions to support asset prices...
...This was encouraging to see," says CDC obesity expert Dr. Bill Dietz. "The results don't mean we've beaten the epidemic, but they do suggest we've stopped the progression...
...stronger than external rewards? I think they're more important for creative, conceptual tasks. If-then motivators - if you do this, then you get that - are really good for routine algorithmic tasks. The problem is fewer of us are doing that kind of work. Now, that doesn't mean that we stop paying people. Intrinsic motivators are clearly the primary root to high performance. In the world of behavioral science that's not even controversial; the idea just hasn't migrated to business. (See the best business deals...
...last humans standing. Nobody knows for sure what happened to them. Maybe we killed them off. Maybe we outcompeted them for scarce resources during the waning decades of the last Ice Age. Or maybe - though this is still hotly debated - we simply mated with them, which would mean we all have a bit of Neanderthal in us.(See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
...Indeed, public outrage may mean little for a regime that is not exactly dependent on a democratic mandate. "You are not talking about a Western society under a Western regime," says Hala Mustafa. "[Popularity] is not calculated this way in Egypt or in the Arab world in general. Popularity is not the element or the factor that could really influence the regime or push the regime to adopt this policy or that one." But for an already unpopular regime, an unpopular approach to Gaza may still be a step onto ever thinning...