Too often, however, teachers' conferences with parents are devoted to petty accounts of complaints about laziness and poor work habits, and suggestion for penalties and rewards at home.
There should be clearly defined rewards or penalties for meeting or not meeting the marker, though you shouldn't be motivated by fear alone since it will get in the way of your work.
We are systematically changing just about everything about how organizations work, but by and large, still measuring and rewarding behavior based on old metrics, because changing those systems takes time.
To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments.
Once natural causation has been swept out of the world by doctrines of reward and punishment some sort of un -natural causation becomes necessary: and all other varieties of the denial of nature follow it.
How could he be sure? Who was going to change it and when, if it wasn't him and now? What would the trigger be? And when it happened, would he even know how to have effective meetings without pre-meetings?