Motivation Monday - What DRIVES You?

Motivation Monday is when I share the title from a motivational book off my have read or wish list.  Todays pick is Drive: the Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.

What DRIVES you?  A simple question.  The answer may not be quite so simple, or it may surprise you.  It's pretty easy to critique someone else, really being honest with yourself is a different story.

Drive: the Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Description:

Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money--the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink in Drive. In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction--at work, at school, and at home--is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.

Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does-and how that affects every aspect of life. He examines the three elements of true motivation--autonomy, mastery, and purpose--and offers smart and surprising techniques for putting these into action in a unique book that will change how we think and transform how we live.

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"Pink's analysis--and new model--of motivation offers tremendous insight into our deepest nature."-Publishers Weekly

"Pink makes a convincing case that organizations ignore intrinsic motivation at their peril."
-Scientific American

 

About the Author:

Daniel H. Pink is the author of four provacative books about the changing world of work -- including the long-running New York Times bestseller, A Whole New Mind and the #1 New York Times bestseller, Drive.  His books have been translated into 32 languages.

In 2011, Harvard Business Review and Thinkers 50 named him one of the top 50 business thinkers in the world.

A graduate of Northwestern University and Yale Law School, Pink lives in Washington, DC, with his wife and their three children.

 

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