The Surprising Science of Motivation

Dan Pink on the Surprising Science of Motivation

 

Source: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html

"There's a mismatch between what science knows and what business does..."

1. Rewards and motivators only work in a narrow band of circumstances
2. Those if-then rewards often destroy creativity
3. The secret to high performance isn't rewards and punishments but that unseen intrinsic drive - the drive to do things for their own sake. The drive to do things that matter