The CEO of a $700 million company uses a simple sentence to turn lazy employees around

Luis von Ahn Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn has a strategy for encouraging underperforming employees. He told the Financial Times that he tells them: "What you're doing is really important." The technique ties back to the idea that people need to feel as if their work has meaning. Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn knows exactly what to do with lazy employees. The founder of the language-learning app, which has been valued at $700 million, recently discussed his strategy for dealing with unengaged employees i...