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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink is a thought-provoking and insightful book that challenges the traditional belief that rewards and incentives are the key to motivation. Instead, Pink argues that the true motivators are autonomy, mastery, and purpose. He draws on four decades of…
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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us is a book by Daniel Pink that examines the science of motivation. In the book, Pink argues that the traditional carrot-and-stick approach to motivation is no longer effective in today’s workforce. Instead, he advocates for a more holistic approach that takes into…
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Dan Pink did a brilliant job making a well-researched theory (self-determination theory) accessible to the general public. The theory was groundbreaking when discovered but never made the leap from academia to practice. Pink made that happen by adding beautiful prose (that I assume he was intrinsically motivated to…
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I’d vouch for any of the ones I’ve mentioned so far. To those, I’d add Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig. I’ve been thinking about it a lot because in places Pirsig ruminates on the divide he perceived in American society, culturally and politically, and potential ways that could be bridged…
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