A LateralAction (Mark McGuinness) interview with Dan PinkDaniel H. Pink is the author of a trio of provocative, bestselling books on the changing world of work:
Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need
Dan's new book, Drive, is subtitled 'the surprising truth about what motivates us'. It introduces some scientific research that turns business practice on its head and offers all of us a more inspiring and meaningful vision of work, and ultimately of life.
"There's a myth in business that the only way to get people to perform at a high level is with carrots and sticks. But that's just wrong - not wrong morally, but wrong scientifically. Forty years of science tells us that those sorts of motivators - If you do this, then you'll get that - do work, but only in a surprisingly narrow band of circumstances. And for creative conceptual work, those if-then motivators usually make things worse."
"The better approach - more enduring and more effective - is motivation built around three ingredients:
~ Autonomy (the desire to direct our own lives)
~ Mastery (the urge to get better at things that matter), and
~ Purpose (the desire to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves.)
This guy is really interesting, and his vision of what fires us up will stretch your mind way past some preconceptions you might not know you had.
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You cannot achieve great success until you are faithful to yourself
- Friedrich W. Nietzsche
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