These hard bottom-line realities may also mean that managers can't rely as much as they might have in the past on using financial incentives to drive employee engagement.

这些基本现实也许还意味着，经理们不能再像过去那样依赖金钱刺激来激励员工。

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he said, "hit it good and hard, so we will all go to the bottom."

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