The Science and the Reality of Motivation
I saw this lecture a year and a half ago from the TED website. It is now apparently on YouTube.
Career analyst Dan Pink goes over the science of motivation. He explores how tasks have changed in the last century to make the traditional motivators ineffective or even harmful to productivity. I especially like the reference to ROWE starting at 15:15. The number or ROWE companies have at least doubled since this talk (See: http://www.gorowe.com/know-rowe/rowe-approved-companies/ ). When he gave this talk, the ROWE website only showed 6 of the “dozen or so” companies he mentions.
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