" If you’re a manager who really wants to demotivate your employees, destroy their work in front of their eyes. Or, if you want to be a little subtler about it, just ignore them and their efforts. On the other hand, if you want to motivate people working with you and for you, it would be useful to pay attention to them, their effort, and the fruits of their labor. There "

― Dan Ariely , A Taste of Irrationality: Sample chapters from Predictably Irrational and Upside of Irrationality