Full name: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Author: Daniel H. Pink Year: 2008 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Business, Psychology, Self help, Science, Leadership, Management Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781594488849 9781594484803 1594488843 1594484805

Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people—at work, at school, at home. It's wrong. As Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others) explains in his paradigm-shattering book Drive, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world 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 our lives. He demonstrates that while the old-fashioned carrot-and-stick approach worked successfully in the 20th century, it's precisely the wrong way to motivate people for today's challenges. In Drive, he reveals the three elements of true motivation: * Autonomy—the desire to direct our own lives * Mastery—the urge to get better and better at something that matters * Purpose—the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves Along the way, he takes us to companies that are enlisting new approaches to motivation and introduces us to the scientists and entrepreneurs who are pointing a bold way forward. Drive is bursting with big ideas—the rare book that will change how you think and transform how you live. Similar books: A Whole New Mind by Daniel H. Pink When by Daniel H. Pink Decisive by Chip Heath Switch by Chip Heath Working With Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman Give and Take by Adam Grant Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker The Power of Moments by Chip Heath Dealing with People You Can't Stand by Rick Brinkman The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg Farsighted by Steven Johnson Essentialism by Greg McKeown Smarter Faster Better by Charles Duhigg Fish! by Stephen C. Lundin The Motivation Manifesto by Brendon Burchard The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Cabane The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor Free Agent Nation by Daniel H. Pink Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry Pre-Suasion by Robert Cialdini