Jargon: Incentivize
Translation: Give someone a reason to do something, or to make people believe that effort will lead to some form of success. I really hate this word. I find it exceptionally meaningless and redundant.
Jargon: Incentivize
Translation: Give someone a reason to do something, or to make people believe that effort will lead to some form of success. I really hate this word. I find it exceptionally meaningless and redundant.
I love your jargon series. However, I have to disagree with you on this particular word. Incentives are what run the world, they’re the basic power behind any micro- or macroeconomic actions (good or bad). We’re all incentivized every day to do things, like you writing this blog post for instance. 🙂
It’s probably overused though.
Erik – I agree completely that incentives are what run the world. I just think using a word like “incentivize” keeps us from doing real thinking about motivations.