Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Hardcover edition
Author Daniel H. Pink
Country United States
Language English
Genre Non-fiction
Publisher Riverhead Hardcover
Publication date
 December 29, 2009
Media type Print (Hardback), E-book
Pages 256 pp.
ISBN 978-1594488849
OCLC 311778265

Drive is the fourth non-fiction book by Daniel Pink. The book was published on December 29, 2009 by Riverhead Hardcover. In the text, he argues that human motivation is largely intrinsic, and that the aspects of this motivation can be divided into autonomy, mastery and purpose.[1] He argues against old models of motivation driven by rewards and fear of punishment, dominated by extrinsic factors such as money.[2][3]

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."[4][5]

Another summary was done by RSAnimate, a ten minute video animation adapted from Dan Pink's talk at the RSA.[6] In the book, Pink discusses the advantages of intrinsic, internal motivation compared to the traditional old-school external motivation of fear, money and rewards.

References

  1. ↑ "MIND Reviews: Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us". Scientific American. May 7, 2010.
  2. ↑ Richard Eisenberg (January 29, 2010). "'Drive' author Daniel Pink: Raises make bad motivators". USA Today.
  3. ↑ Chris Cameron (May 14, 2010). "Weekend Reading: Drive, by Daniel Pink".
  4. ↑ Pink, Daniel H. (2010). Drive – The Surprising Truth about what motivates us. 2815 of 3967: Canongate Books. ISBN 978-1-84767-888-1.
  5. ↑ Beth Hawkins (November 12, 2010). "'Drive' author Daniel Pink offers creative ways for educators to 'lighten their load'". MinnPost.
  6. ↑ "RSA Animate – Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us".

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