If the league is going to bother with a complex lottery-odds allocation system at all returning to straight inverse order of won-lost record, as MLB, the NFL and NHL do, at least has the benefit of simplicity it needs to balance the goals of redistributing talent and incentivizing winning more effectively.
"Incentivizing any field," he writes, "encourages people to cheat".
On Twitter Savage posted the following: It risks incentivizing suicide — take revenge on hateful parents by killing yourself — but an example needs 2 be made of #LeelahAlcorn's parents We know that parental hostility & rejection doubles a queer kid's already quadrupled risk of suicide — rejecting your queer kid is abuse.
The answer in the document is vague: "Reforming our health care system, simplifying our payment structure and incentivizing new ways to make sure patients are actually getting better health care will generate massive savings".
Earlier this year, he cut the top tax rate from fifty per cent to forty-five per cent, claiming that Britain's highest earners needed incentivizing.
The concussion protocol may even have the indirect, and perhaps unresolvable, effect of perversely incentivizing the kinds of plays that cause concussions.
In the case of the AT&T-T-Mobile deal, the fee is all about compensating T-Mobile if the deal collapses and assuring it on the risks involved, as well as incentivizing AT&T to do what is needed to obtain this clearance in terms of regulatory concessions.
"They are the ones who are holding corporate America's feet to the fire and incentivizing companies to perform better," said Frank Partnoy, a professor of law and finance at the University of San Diego.
CORPORATE chieftains tend to have an overarching faith in the curative powers of modern management — goal-setting, incentivizing, metrics, accountability, the whole shebang.
He told a high school student that he admires the Obama administration for "incentivizing performance" as part of the Race to the Top program.
The system is incentivizing the hiring of younger, healthier workers (I have written about this previously), and giving me a perfectly rational reason to turn down older, potentially sicker applicants.
