This document discusses insights on motivation and how to motivate sales performance. It provides data showing that a large percentage of employees would work harder if better recognized, and are dissatisfied with their current level of recognition. It also notes that companies often take over a month to calculate sales commissions. The document recommends combining different motivational factors like cash incentives, healthy competition, showing achievement progress, and status recognition to most effectively motivate performance. When incentives are applied correctly, companies see benefits like faster revenue growth, shorter sales cycles, lower turnover, and more reps making their quotas.