To be completely honest, this is one of the books that inspired me to start a new business, a mobile app I’m still working on (Books In Action). This book helped me understand that our education system requires revolution. It’s obsolete, and completely not prepared for the future.My top 3 takeaways are:* Some people are motivated intrinsically and some are motivated intrinsically. * Extrinsic motivation can kill intrinsic motivation. In order words, if we pay someone to do sth, or we force someo...

Some good ideas, but for once I'd like to see a book where the case studies about flexible scheduling and autonomy don't involve software companies or consultants. I'd like to see an example where they motivate DMV employees to work harder to do the same menial work, but if giving DMV employees 20% flex time for their own projects means a corresponding 20% increase in the 2 hour wait time, I'm not on board with it. I don't know why, but it bugs me when authors use software version numbers, the b...

As a consultant, I am particularly sensitive to unhelpful jargon and the creation of distinctions without a difference. Enter "Drive." This could have been so much better. As Pink presents correctly, much of the research re human motivation IS counter-intuitive to what most of us tend to think is the best way to reward, incentivize or bribe people to act in beneficial ways. Unfortunately, Pink insists on creating such a tower of babble -- "motivation 3.0," "type-I," "ROE," "if/then contingent re...

I read Drive a while back, like in 2012, and as I recall, I sort of liked it, but apparently not all that much, as evidenced by the fact that I retained very little of the materiel, gave it a (x3) star rating and didn’t bother to write a review of it. Anyway, I re-read it as a little supplement to an Emotion, Cognition and Motivation course I’m taking. And as it turns out, it’s better in the broader context of the field. So I’m taking this opportunity to reconsider the book, and give it the ‘onc...

Well, it was a quick read. This book aims for self and business improvement. The content in this book gets straight to the point, not beating around the bush. This books starts with the introduction to what motivates or drives humans to accomplish tasks. Humans have the following types of drives,1 - Biological drive: eat to sate the hunger, drink to quench the thirst.2 - Extrinsic drive: you get a reward if you work and you get punished when you don't. It is also known as rewards and punishment

This book comes with its own summary – a very handy thing:“COCKTAIL PARTY SUMMARYWhen it comes to motivation, there’s a gap between what science knows and what business does. Our current business operating system—which is built around external, carrot-and-stick motivators—doesn’t work and often does harm. We need an upgrade. And the science shows the way. This new approach has three essential elements: (1) Autonomy—the desire to direct our own lives; (2) Mastery—the urge to get better and better...

From the Fictive Desk of D.J. Ian:The End is Much More Exciting than It Was Once Upon a TimeThe story of GoodBetterBestReads has really only just begun, but we have already become the world’s largest community of potential readers, book buyers and Kindle users who have star-rated a book at least once in the last 12 months. The problem is you can’t buy a condo or a beer off the back of potential alone. We need people to buy books, and to do that we need people who can sell books.That’s where you

What frustrates me is the main premise has a contradiction that is never addressed. He begins the book with some research on monkeys that demonstrated an innate interest in solving puzzles. He then goes on to describe his big premise which is that we are are in the midst of a major motivational shift. First our motivation was our biological drives. Then came a period of motivation from structure and oversight. And now we want autonomy to determine our own motivation. But Pink's presentation on t...

In Drive, Daniel H. Pink suggests that there is a gap between what "science knows and what business does." I was not shocked to learn that this gap exists, and I attributed Pink's decision to emphasize the existence of this gap to what I believe is the author's drive to attract corporate speaking engagements, consultancies, and Op/Ed articles in national newspapers. If he's lucky, he could maybe land a job as a pundit. Ostensibly, Pink's purpose is to share the "surprising truth about what motiv...

I can think of a few alternate titles for this book.“The Art of Beating a Dead Horse: Your Guide to Regurgitating the Same Point in Every Chapter”“How to Filter Years of Other People’s Research into Broad Talking Points”“You Too Can Write a Book With At Least 25% Filler Material”“The Fair and Balanced Guide to Selling Your Point By Avoiding Contradictory Evidence”I jest, yet I do think the main topic of this book is important and true. I will save you the pain of reading it by stating it here: p...

Reading Pink's book, I endlessly thought about teachers and what motivates us (it's NOT merit-pay) and students and what motivates them to read (it's not pizza coupons or AR points). Funny, insightful, and supported by research, Drive has far-reaching implications for our society and how we view work and the people we try to motivate.

2.5 ⭐️'s rounded up to 3 — Interesting approach for a hard to nail down answer. Most relevant for employers trying to extract optimum performance from employees, parents raising children, or those with general curiosity. We're born to be players, not pawns. We're meant to be autonomous individuals, not individual automatons.Best predictor of success: Grit. (I actually liked Angela Duckworth's book, "Grit," a little more than this one.) Second Law of Mastery: Mastery Is A PainA lot of this stuff

This is another great book by Daniel Pink. It may be a coincidence, but just a few weeks ago I read another book on the same theme: Punished by Rewards: The Trouble With Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A'S, Praise, and Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn. The book by Kohn was published about 20 years earlier, and tells much the same story, in a much more scholarly, and perhaps drier style.Daniel Pink's book, though, is much more readable, much shorter, and has a different slant. Rewards can be used to motiv...

Are you the type of person that is motivated by money and fame, or are you someone that is motivated by having a larger purpose in life? Or are you a combination of both? Financial gain has always been a motivator for me, but I'm also the type of person that will take on extra work, new projects or volunteer my time simply because I like the work and it makes me feel good. It might sound crazy, but I'm not the only one. The volunteer industry is booming with people just like me who are looking f...