When I first read Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us [AF] from Daniel Pink, I was blown away. I hadn’t heard very much about the content so I didn’t know what to expect. I just thought it was a book on motivation. I’ve worked with managers who love to create “incentive bonuses” and [...]
What if everything you thought you knew about motivating yourself and others turned out to be wrong?
What if the old “carrot and stick” approach has been, time and time again, proven not to work?
What if those tried-and-untrue tactics were also proven to hinder results and decrease performance?
What if a Nobel Prize was awarded in economics [...]
What comes first? Having success or being successful? Who gets to tell you when you’re there?
More importantly, who gets to tell you when you’re not there?
There’s a funny paradox in the world: countless dollars are spent on books and materials teaching how to DO things and yet what is the essential source of that [...]