Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

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Synopsis
From Daniel H. Pink, how to harness that knowledge to find greater satisfaction in our lives and our work. We've been conditioned to think that the best way to motivate ourselves and others is through external rewards like money-- the carrot-and-the-stick approach. That's a mistake, Daniel H. Pink says in his transformative new book. The key to high performance and satisfaction is intrinsic, internal motivation: the desire to follow your own interests and understand the benefits in them for you. And Pink has discovered thirty years of scientific data that confirm these ideas and show an exciting way forward. As he did in his groundbreaking bestseller A Whole New Mind, Pink lays out the hard science for these surprising insights, describes how people and corporations can embrace such ideas (some of them are already doing it), offers details about how we can master them, and provides concrete examples on how intrinsic motivation works on the job, at home, and in ourselves. This is a book of big ideas that explains how each of us can find the surest pathway to high performance, creativity, and even health and well-being.
Copyright:
2009

Book Details

Book Quality:
Excellent
Book Size:
243 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781594488849
Publisher:
N/A
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Daniel H. Pink
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Self-Help, Business and Finance
Submitted By:
Liz Halperin
Proofread By:
Liz Halperin
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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This short book was fun to proofread and I learned a lot. It's written in an easy to read format, with easy analogies and humor, but not patronizing. Pink gives a brief history of motivation theory and why the traditional method of "carrots and sticks" is not working at this time. There's a great theoretical analogy using Microsoft Encarta and Wikipedia. Pink identifies Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic motivators and why the extrinsic actually backfires. The big thing: rewards and consequences can remove intrinsic motivation. Pink gives easy-to-understand summaries of research studies; ideas; relevance to businesses, schools, families, parents, and plain old "us" everyday folk. A wonderful example of Intrinsic motivation: all the volunteers developing Bookshare!