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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Daniel H. Pink
hardback, Riverhead Hardcover,by Daniel H. Pink
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2 reviews from Economics blogs:
- Cafe Hayek 30 Aug 10:
... The latest EconTalk is Dan Pink talking about motivation and incentives, the themes of his book, Drive. The book is based on research results from behavioral psychology that often find perverse results or non-results from using money or other rewards to motivate people. In the podcast, I challenge the reliability and applicability of these results. Pink pushes back. We also talk at length about education and family life. Enjoy. ... - Felix Salmon 16 Dec 09:
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1 review from Entrepreneur blogs:
- Entrepreneur.com - Daily Dose 29 Jul 10:
... Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink is one of those books that makes you wonder why we are having so much trouble getting over the command-and-control/face- time-and-billable-hours business models. In a nutshell--or should I say, in a 'tweet'--which Pink so gamely prepares for us: 'Carrots & sticks are so last century. Drive says for 21st century work, we need to upgrade to autonomy, mastery & purpose. 'While Drive is like a lot of business books that focus on a new trend--i. e. , really just an extended magazine article--it does hammer home some salient points. ...
3 reviews from Marketing blogs:
- Chris Brogan 30 Jan 10:
... I really enjoyed Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (amazon affiliate link), by Daniel Pink. Dan’s got a great style about him, and this book really shows off his storytelling-meets-research style very well. As you’ll see in the video, I took lots of notes while reading the book. It’s interesting that I wrote equally as many notes about the book’s points as I did ideas for New Marketing Labs. Anyhow, check out the video: Direct link to the video ... - Conversation Agent 15 Jan 10:
... I agree with Dan Pink, there is no limit for better. How do you get there? In his latest book, Drive, Pink suggests you do that by taking an approach that has three elements to it:1. ) Autonomy - or the desire to direct our own lives2. ) Mastery - the urge to get better and better at something that matters3. ) Purpose - the yearning to do what we do in the service larger than ourselvesFor starters, gaining an appreciation and understanding that people's default settings are self-directed - they actually don't need to be baby-sat - will help you see that people need autonomy over task (what ... - ConverSations 30 Dec 09:
... I've really made some noise about it for it to be so high on the list. Though I didn't track it this year, I believe The Think Big Manifesto was the book I gifted most often. Radical Careering (published in 2005) probably has a permanent spot on this list. Books I look forward to most in 2010? Drive by Daniel Pink (just out now), Fascinate by Sally Hogshead (due out February), and Confessions of a Public Speaker by Scott Berkun (just picked up the Kindle version). What were the books you talked most about in 2009. (I'm taking notes if I missed one you loved!)FYI: The links to the books ...
2 reviews from Productivity blogs:
- Zen habits 17 Feb 10:
... in time when your challenging exercise routine felt effortless? All of these times you were in a state of flow. Flow is a concept developed by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi of the University of Chicago, who has studied the phenomena his whole career. Daniel Pink reintroduces the concept in his new book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. Many people flow through their lives in an effortless fashion, while countless others have a difficult time achieving a flow state. Why flow is hard to achieve Flow is a moment in time when you’re both challenged at the activity that ... - Stepcase Lifehack 18 Nov 09:
... experience; and an authority-questioning worldview that keeps complacency at bay and hierarchies relatively flat. As a strictly anti-Zionist Jew (that means I feel no cultural connection with Israel or with the notion of a homeland), even I was considering emigration when I finished this book!10. Drive by Daniel H. PinkPink is the author of The Adventures of Johnny Bunko, a guide to career change in the form of an anime novel (which I reviewed here). In Drive, he delves into the psychology of motivation, showing that virtually everything businesses do to motivate employees (and that we do ...
2 reviews from Tech startups blogs:
- Coding Horror 01 Jun 10:
... It turns out that traditional carrot-and-stick incentives are only useful for repetitive, mechanical tasks. The minute you have to do anything even slightly complex that requires even a little problem solving without a clear solution or rules -- those incentives not only don't work, they make things worse! Pink eventually wrote a book about this, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. There's no need to read the book; this clever ten minute whiteboard animation will walk you through the main points. If you view only one video today, view this one. The concept of intrinsic motivation may not be a new one, but I find that very few companies are brave enough to actually implement them. ... - 47 Hats 09 Mar 10:
... from managers. Think about the difference you’re going to make in the lives of the people who use your software. That’s the motivation you need – it’s like rocket fuel. I didn’t somehow discover this myself out of the clear blue – I read Dan Pink’s book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us It radically changed my daily battle with my Invisible Wall. And then Pat and I interviewed Dan 3/7 for an amazing 80 minutes – and the first (of three!) parts of that interview we hope to have out tomorrow for the Startup Success Podcast. ...
1 review from Thinkers blogs:
- Open Culture 23 Jun 10:
... RSA offers up another animated video explaining what makes us tick. This time, they’re featuring a lecture by Daniel Pink, the bestselling author of Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. Revisiting research also found in Dan Ariely’s new book, The Upside of Irrationality, Pink drives home the point that traditional motivation schemes – namely, bonuses – rarely achieve their intended results. In fact, the bigger the bonus, the bigger the decline in performance. Or so studies show again and again. So what does motivate us? The desire to be self-directed. The will to master something. ...
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