This live demonstration provides a powerful lesson of why traditional 'manage for results' does not produce the desired results. Doing your best, quotas, exhortations, threats as well as imposed work standards have no effects on outcome.
The company in the experiment fails because the system was not improved, despite the efforts of management. "Motivating" individuals to do a better job did not help. One of management's job is prediction.Predicting performance based on understanding the system is most powerful form of prediction, anything else is just a guess.When improvement is desired, then improve the system, any other activity will only cause frustration for yourself and your workers.
During the debriefing we will discuss the 'Motivators' and how the Red BeadExperiment supports 'The Fourteen Points'.