According to some studies, the best performance in a company is rendered where the boss is a yelling maniac ad the employees tremble constantly. It seems that fear is a good incentive in the line of work. On the other hand, the most reliable and stable companies have always had an open-minded policy when concerning employees. Treat them as you would your own is the current reminder. You don’t have to actually love them, just make it appear so.
For example: A couple of years ago I had a boss who enjoyed gardening a lot. Everybody knew that. And whenever some guy or girl made a notable deal, meaning rendered good performance, a bowl of carefully selected fresh flowers appeared on his/her desk the next morning. The flowers were selected, cut and arranged by our boss. It was the cheapest incentive one could find that actually worked wonders. The darn