Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
mendi926QuotesCitate: 15Anglisht
Anglisht
Gjeneruar me AI
The secret to high performance isn’t our biological drive or our reward-and-punishment drive, but our third drive—our deep-seated desire to direct our own lives, to extend and expand our abilities, and to live a life of purpose.Daniel H. Pink
Rewards can deliver a short-term boost—just as a jolt of caffeine can keep you cranking for a few more hours. But the effect wears off—and, worse, can reduce a person’s longer-term motivation to continue the project.Daniel H. Pink
Management isn’t about walking around and seeing if people are in their offices. It’s about creating conditions for people to do their best work.Daniel H. Pink
The best use of money as a motivator is to pay people enough to take the issue of money off the table.Daniel H. Pink
People use rewards expecting to gain the benefit of increasing another person's motivation and behavior, but in so doing, they often incur the unintentional and hidden cost of undermining that person's intrinsic motivation toward the activity.Daniel H. Pink
Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.Daniel H. Pink
Autonomy, as they see it, is different from independence. It's not the rugged, go-it-alone, rely-on-nobody individualism of the American cowboy. It means acting with choice.Daniel H. Pink
People will do good things if you give them the chance and create the conditions for it.Daniel H. Pink
The most deeply motivated people hitch their desires to a cause larger than themselves.Daniel H. Pink
Intrinsic motivation is conducive to creativity; controlling extrinsic motivation is detrimental to creativity.Daniel H. Pink
Too many organizations—still—value conformity over independence and compliance over creativity.Daniel H. Pink
Rewards, by their very nature, narrow our focus. That's helpful when there's a clear path to a solution. They concentrate the mind. But for the real breakthroughs...the solution isn't on the near horizon.Daniel H. Pink
The desire to do something because it is enjoyable, not because we have to do it, does exist. It is an innate capacity, which lies at the heart of our nature as active beings.Daniel H. Pink
For artists, scientists, inventors, schoolchildren, and the rest of us, intrinsic motivation—the drive to do something because it is interesting, challenging, and absorbing—is essential for high levels of creativity.Daniel H. Pink
The single most important thing a manager can do to make someone happy at work is to not interfere with that person's progress.Daniel H. Pink