Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us  
Author(s) Daniel Pink
Language English
Genre(s) Non-fiction
Publisher Penguin Group
Publication date 2009
Media type Print (Hardback), E-book
ISBN 978-1-84767-888-1

Drive is a 2009 non-fiction book by Daniel Pink. In it, he suggests that motivation with rewards or fear of punishment, dominated by extrinsic factors what he refers to as money is broken. The book claims that we have now moved into an era where motivation is inner thing, and that to work it needs to be actioned through autonomy, mastery and purpose.[1]

Summary

In his book Daniel Pink has made a 140-character summary of what the book is about, in the style of Twitter.

"Carrots & Sticks are so last Century. Drive says for 21st century work, we need to upgrade to autonomy, mastery and purpose."[2]

References

  1. ^ "MIND Reviews: Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us", Scientific American, May 7, 2010, http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=mind-reviews-drive-the-surprising-truth 
  2. ^ Pink, Daniel H. (2010). Drive - The Surprising Truth about what motivates us. 2815 of 3967: Canongate Books. ISBN 978 1 84767 888 1. 

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