#95: Drive

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, by Daniel H. Pink (New York: Riverhead Books, 2009)

Summary:
"Most of us believe that the best way to motivate ourselves and others is with external rewards like money -- the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, Daniel H. Pink says in Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, his provocative and persuasive new book. 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 demonstrates that while carrots and sticks worked successfully in the twentieth century, that's precisely the wrong way to motivate people for today's challenges. In Drive, he examines the three elements of true motivation -- autonomy, mastery, and purpose -- and offers smart and surprising techniques for putting these into action. 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 look and transform how you live."

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: The Puzzling Puzzles of Harry Harlow and Edward Deci

Part I: A New Operating System

• Chapter 1: The Rise and Fall of Motivation 2.0
• Chapter 2: Seven Reasons Carrots and Sticks (Often) Don't Work ...
• Chapter 2A: ... and the Special Circumstances When They Do
• Chapter 3: Type I and Type X

Part II: The Three Elements

• Chapter 4: Autonomy
• Chapter 5: Mastery
• Chapter 6: Purpose

Part III: The Type I Toolkit

• Type I for Individuals: Nine Strategies for Awakening Your Motivation
• Type I for Organizations: Nine Ways to Improve Your Company, Office, or Group
• The Zen of Compensation: Paying People the Type I Way
• Type I for Parents and Educators: Nine Ideas for Helping Our Kids
• The Type I Reading List: Fifteen Essential Books
• Listen to the Gurus: Six Business Thinkers Who Get It
• The Type I Fitness Plan: Four Tips for Getting (and Staying) Motivated to Exercise
• Drive: The Recap
• Drive: The Glossary
• The Drive Discussion Guide: Twenty Conversation Starters to Keep You Thinking and Talking
• Find Out More -- About Yourself and This Topic

My Take:
Will this be more akin to Who Killed Change? or to Employees First, Customers Second? We shall see.

OK, a few weeks later and I've fallen dreadfully behind in my book blogging, so these next few entries will be short. Drive made sense and definitely had some ideas I'll plan to use once I'm reemployed, but got a bit repetitive midway through. Next.