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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us Hardcover – December 29, 2009

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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Riverhead Books; 1 edition (December 29, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1594488843
  • ISBN-13: 978-1594488849
  • Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 1 x 9.2 inches
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4,156 of 4,354 people found the following review helpful
Biased and selective presentation of important ideas
By Walter H. Bock on January 24, 2010
Format: Hardcover
Before plunking down your credit card for a copy of Drive, by Dan Pink, consider making do with just his TED talk. The talk contains the substance of this book without the excess padding.

The book has about 250 pages. One hundred fifty or so of those are for the basic content. It includes the Introduction and Parts I and II (chapters one through six).

The other hundred pages are a "Toolkit." This includes some material that didn't seem to fit anywhere else, a glossary, a recap of Drive, twenty conversation starters (useful at cocktail parties), a reading list, and a fitness plan. That's forty percent of the book. And none of it helps you put what you've read to work.

The core points of the book are covered in the TED talk. You can listen to it in about fifteen minutes or read it in about ten. You won't get the fitness plan or the conversation starters. You will get the essence of Pink's message.

If you're a boss or concerned about leadership, you need to become familiar with that message. The ideas are important. Pink's rendering of them, for good or ill, will define and influence the discussion of motivation in business for quite a while.

He does get the big picture right. He says that people would prefer activities where they can pursue three things.

Autonomy: People want to have control over their work.

Mastery: People want to get better at what they do.

Purpose: People want to be part of something that is bigger than they are.

This matches research that I've done with class members for over twenty-five years. They discuss a time when "it was great to come to work" and then create a description of what those times are like.Read more ›
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194 of 225 people found the following review helpful
A Real Winner
By John Chancellor TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on November 30, 2009
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Daniel Pink has written a highly interesting and very informative book on the truth about what motivates us.

He uses a very interesting analogy - comparing motivation to different generations of operating software. Motivation 1.0 the basic operating system for the first few thousand years was based on the primary needs of the human - food, shelter, clothing and reproduction. Eventually we moved to Motivation 2.0 - basically the carrot and the stick - reward and punishment worked fairly well for a time.

But according to Pink and other scientists, reward and punishment no longer work in most situations. We need to move to Motivation 3.0.

Pink goes into great detain about why the carrot and stick motivation does not work. "The traditional `If then' rewards can give us less of what we want. They extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity and crowd out good behavior. The can encourage unethical behavior, create addictions and foster short-term thinking. These are the bugs in our current operating system."

The "if then" reward/punishment system does work under very limited conditions. Pink explores these.

He then introduces the I Type and X Type behavior - named for intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Type I behavior concerns itself less with external rewards and more with doing things for the joy of doing them.

There are three elements to the I Type behavior: Autonomy - we all long to be autonomous - to have control over our lives and destiny. To the extent that we don't have autonomy we feel something missing. The second element is Mastery. We need to learn to master the tasks we are undertaking. The third element is Purpose. We need to "buy in" to why we are doing things.Read more ›
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378 of 443 people found the following review helpful
Just as important as "A Whole New Mind"
By Amazon Customer VINE VOICE on November 28, 2009
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Daniel Pink's new book follows well in the tradition of "A Whole New Mind," as he picks up on a new trend and explains it well. This time it's the apparent paradox of motivation - why do some people like Google pay their staff to regularly work on projects of their own choosing when they could be working hard on what they were hired to do?

Pink shows that there has always been monetary motivation, but that has lost its attractiveness as we've moved from the "top-down" management system to the more heuristic style (workers being free to decide how to do their jobs). He points out that repetitive jobs lend themselves more to traditional rewards, whereas money doesn't seem to motivate innovation.

I used to work for a major corporation (which we'll call "EMC," because that is their name). Pretty much everyone I met had responsibility for something, to the degree that supervisors were enablers - you went to them and told them what to do. Supervisors could (and sometimes did) give you reasons why not, but they weren't about to come into your cubicle and micromanage you. And the wider your responsibility, the harder you worked.

This system was totally unlike anything I'd come across before. Most businesses would act as though their employees couldn't be trusted. And although I was looking behind me nervously, I shone in this environment, and now I realized that's what they wanted from me.

Pink mentions Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (if that's new to you, look it up on Wikipedia), and I think he is right that now that there's a relatively well-paid group of workers, they can ask for something more than basic salary.Read more ›
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Published 3 days ago by Willow Rose
Truth about human motivaton

Yes, this certainly does offer the truth about what motivates us humans and has several aspects that differs is from other books. Read more

Published 3 days ago by Veronica Brooks
Great read on what motivates people, especially helpful in workplace

Great examples and the 3 takeaways are: It’s autonomy, mastery, and purpose. This is a definite read for anyone who manages people

Published 16 days ago by Greg Silas
An excellent read for all walks of life and business

Relevant, well written, thought provoking.

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Product arrived on time, as promised. Seemed repetitive - could have been shorter without losing the impact.

Published 26 days ago by John L. Arnold
Justwatch his Ted talk and save yourself the time to ...

Just watch his Ted talk and save yourself the time to read the book.

Published 27 days ago by Amazon Customer
Good

Good book, good subject, but not so well written as I imagined, that's why I gave 3 stars, if it it would better written, it would deserve four.

Published 1 month ago by Pichler
Great book that is relevant to today's job market and employee...

I reference this book periodically and find something new each time. Great chapter summary at the end. I recommend for all managers and leaders.

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