Awesome talk on how wrong we are about motivation

Last Updated on Sunday, 6 December 2009 11:47 Written by Steve Friday, 11 September 2009 02:40

I love this talk about how wrong business is, especially in combination with the Netflix presentation.

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3 Comments

  1. Jon Stahl   |  Friday, 11 September 2009 at 6:47 pm

    Autonomy, mastery, purpose are the true motivators. This is why open-source (among other things) works.

  2. Scott Paley   |  Tuesday, 15 September 2009 at 2:57 pm

    Yes!

    Commissions and bonuses may work for sales people and bankers, at least in the short term, but I have never been a fan of financial incentive programs for creative workers. In my experience, they frequently have the unintended consequence of demotivating (at best) or of pushing the optimization of outcomes that weren’t really desired (at worst).

    Joel Spolsky wrote a lot about this a long time ago at http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000070.html

    I hope you’re enjoying your time off!

  3. Steve   |  Tuesday, 15 September 2009 at 2:59 pm

    Thanks for the link to Joel’s article!

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