Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
By Midas / June 23, 2014 / 2 Comments / Motivation
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From Daniel H. Pink, the author of the groundbreaking bestseller A Whole New Mind, comes his next big idea book: a paradigm- changing examination of what truly motivates us and how to harness that knowledge to find greater satisfaction in our lives and our work.
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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…