Here’s a great animation of a brief, compelling lecture by Dan Pink on the nature of motivation in which he describes the paradox that money is a terrible motivator for complex tasks. It turns out that autonomy, mastery and purpose–not money–are the prime motivating factors for sophisticated work.
“If we start treating people like people, and not assuming that they’re simply horses–slower, smaller, better smelling horses–if we get past this kind of ideology of carrots and sticks and look at the science, I think we can actually build organizations and work lives that make us better off. But I also think they have the promise to make our world just a little bit better.”
The longer, full (unanimated) talk for The RSA is here.
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