Dan Pink on Motivation – Animated
Last Updated on Friday, 21 May 2010 08:06 Written by Steve Friday, 14 May 2010 12:49
I love Dan Pink’s ideas on motivation–autonomy, mastery, and purpose are what drive us all. This re-visioning of his talk is brilliant!
Thanks for sharing that, Steve – very entertaining and insightful. Funny, when I review my relative motivation for each of my past jobs, it really rings true.
The only thing I would challenge is the idea that this doesn’t apply to physical labor as well. My intuition is that we just are not creative enough at providing purpose, mastery, and autonomy to those types of workers – for my part, I have worked really hard on a farm and at a brewery for very little reward because of those same motivators.
Of course, it is important to remember that a huge number of people are motivated primarily by fear of not having work at all. But I suppose Dan Pink would note that these folks rarely do the best work.