Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
By Midas / July 14, 2013 / 3 Comments / Motivation
The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm—shattering new way to think about motivation.
Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That’s a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others). In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.
Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does—and how that affects every aspect of life. He examines the three elements of true motivation—autonomy, mastery, and purpose-and offers smart and surprising techniques for putting these into action in a unique book that will change how we think and transform how we live.
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A Real Winner Daniel Pink has written a highly interesting and very informative book on the truth about what motivates us.He uses a very interesting analogy – comparing motivation to different generations of operating software. Motivation 1.0 the basic operating system for the first few thousand years was based on the primary needs of the human – food, shelter, clothing and reproduction. Eventually we moved to Motivation 2.0 – basically the carrot and the stick – reward and punishment worked…
Just as important as “A Whole New Mind” Daniel Pink’s new book follows well in the tradition of “A Whole New Mind,” as he picks up on a new trend and explains it well. This time it’s the apparent paradox of motivation – why do some people like Google pay their staff to regularly work on projects of their own choosing when they could be working hard on what they were hired to do?Pink shows that there has always been monetary motivation, but that has lost its attractiveness as we’ve moved from the “top-down” management…
Biased and selective presentation of important ideas Before plunking down your credit card for a copy of Drive, by Dan Pink, consider making do with just his TED talk. The talk contains the substance of this book without the excess padding.The book has about 250 pages. One hundred fifty or so of those are for the basic content. It includes the Introduction and Parts I and II (chapters one through six).The other hundred pages are a “Toolkit.” This includes some material that didn’t seem to fit anywhere else, a glossary, a…