What are you Rewarding?

Designing Incentives: What Are You Rewarding In Your Classroom?

19th century palaeontologists traveling to China used to pay peasants for each fragment of dinosaur bone (dinosaur fossils) that they produced. They later discovered that peasants dug up the bones and then smashed them into multiple pieces to maximize their payments.

Source: LeadershipNow.com
Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, 2003