Drive - The Surprising Truth about what Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
This engaging book provides information on what motivates humans to do things. He talks about creating "Goldilocks tasks". These are challenging enough to keep people's interest but not too impossible to achieve. I have used this very successfully with our graduate student worker's when they are learning unfamiliar tasks such as fungal identification.
There are three components contributing to the drive to succeed autonomy, mastery and purpose. He differentiates between type X motivation using a carrot and a stick vs. intrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation (Type I) works best for tasks requiring heuristic (creative) thinking. Most of the new jobs require this type of thinking rather than algorithmic step by step work. The boring step by step work responds better to carrot stick motivation.
The book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
is available from Amazon.com
There are three components contributing to the drive to succeed autonomy, mastery and purpose. He differentiates between type X motivation using a carrot and a stick vs. intrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation (Type I) works best for tasks requiring heuristic (creative) thinking. Most of the new jobs require this type of thinking rather than algorithmic step by step work. The boring step by step work responds better to carrot stick motivation.
An illustrated talk by Daniel Pink
The book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
is available from Amazon.com
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