Former Al Gore speechwriter and career thinking Dan Pink summarizes the problems with applying the traditional money/career/praise rewards to the creative tasks more of us tackle these days, and hints at how we might learn to give ourselves smarter motivations.
Pink, author of the forthcoming Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, frames a big-picture topic in digestible terms, driving home the point that what works at getting people to work better and faster at straight-ahead, turn-it-out tasks doesn’t work for work that requires a bit more right-brain effort. It’s about 18 minutes, but well worth the sit-down. It also ties in with the argument to free office workers from IT lockdown.
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Sunday, September 27, 2009 at 1:02 AMWhy does this page refresh itself in the middle of the video??!?!