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> John Doe stacking pallets at the Coca Cola factory really won't produce much better top or bottom line results for the business if you offer him a stock bonus. His forklift only drives so fast. A counter-perspective would be that John Doe becomes incentivized to improve efficiency and innovate in the process. People are not machines or primitive animals. Humans are capable of creative problem-solving. Note: stock o…
> A counter-perspective would be that John Doe becomes incentivized to improve efficiency and innovate in the process. But the best-case percentage improvement in the overall company bottom line due to his innovations as a fork lift driver is still very, very small. To make it bigger, John Doe needs to stop being a fork lift driver and move to some other position with more leverage. And a person who really does have…
Depends on whether you count sharing his "this is a better way to use a fork-lift" around the company as best-practice as being due to his innovation or due to the manager who made it best practice.
If you count that as his innovation, then it isn't small if there are a lot of other people doing his job. If Amazon could use fork-lifts in their warehouses 10% more efficiently, they'd save an enormous amount of money.