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Work teams work on projects which have a beginning and end, they usually have well-defined roles in those project, and they get paid for doing that work - it’s their job. To use Dan Ariely’s metaphore, they are evaluating what they do and how much they contribute in their market framework.
Communities are mostly self-organized around a shared passion or around the need for people to help others and be helped. There are few pre-defined roles, and people usually do not get paid to participate - it’s not their job. In the most successful communities, people evaluate their contributions in their social framework.
So why is that important? Because they require radically different motivators in order to work.
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