http://www.timpeter.com/blog/2010/01/21/daniel-h-pinks-drive-the-surprising-truth-about-what-motivates-us-book-review-of-the-week-ish/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=daniel-h-pinks-drive-the-surprising-truth-about-what-motivates-us-book-review-of-the-week-ish Interactive marketing and e-commerce strategy blog for the local, mobile, social web Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:08:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.timpeter.com/blog/2010/01/21/daniel-h-pinks-drive-the-surprising-truth-about-what-motivates-us-book-review-of-the-week-ish/comment-page-1/#comment-6702 Danmark Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:41:58 +0000 http://www.timpeter.com/blog/?p=1108#comment-6702 Drive was an easy read, so much so it would be easy to overlook the depth of the subject. Pink makes an excellent argument to challenge our common business approach to "motivating" people by suggesting that "management" is not natural, it is a technology, something that was invented. We aren't really motivated by the "carrot and stick" approach, at least not always in a positive sense. So what if you could make "work" into something more akin to "play"? Pink suggests there is a way, albeit not necessarily an easy way. Drive was an easy read, so much so it would be easy to overlook the depth of the subject. Pink makes an excellent argument to challenge our common business approach to “motivating” people by suggesting that “management” is not natural, it is a technology, something that was invented. We aren’t really motivated by the “carrot and stick” approach, at least not always in a positive sense. So what if you could make “work” into something more akin to “play”? Pink suggests there is a way, albeit not necessarily an easy way.

]]> http://www.timpeter.com/blog/2010/01/21/daniel-h-pinks-drive-the-surprising-truth-about-what-motivates-us-book-review-of-the-week-ish/comment-page-1/#comment-5960 Current Bestsellers « Bestsellers Tue, 31 May 2011 14:38:41 +0000 http://www.timpeter.com/blog/?p=1108#comment-5960 [...] timpeter.com: Daniel Pink’s latest book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, looks at motivation in the 21st Century and how companies can use “Management 3.0? to engage and enlist their employees in their success. Read the full review [...] [...] timpeter.com: Daniel Pink’s latest book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, looks at motivation in the 21st Century and how companies can use “Management 3.0? to engage and enlist their employees in their success. Read the full review [...]

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