Book Series: Drive

This entry from My Book Series goes to "The Surprising Truth About What Motivate Us".

How I Found it

Who hasn't seen the all time known TedTalk from Dan Pink talk which is white-boarded in an animation? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

After reencountering it a few years back, it sparked my purchase. You can also check out my entry of: WHEN! Also written by Pink.

What it Tells me

That we get stuck with hierarchy and directives because it's easy to understand, simple to monitor and straightforward to enforce. We need to look & pursue further outside of this.

That carrots and sticks don't work, as it encourages short-term thinking and promotes bad behaviour. We need to look & pursue further outside of this.

That in our ever-changing environment it demands a non-routine, creative, conceptual abilities, therefore command-and-control and detailed tasks are not fit for purpose. We need to look & pursue further outside of this.

Food for Thought

Intrinsically we humans want to be happy, and happiness derives from having purpose and, pursuit towards interesting and challenging ‘somethings’ that are greater than oneself.

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Find more about the book and the author: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Drive-Surprising-Truth-About-Motivates-ebook/dp/B0033TI4BW