Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us Paperback – April 5, 2011

Terrific Insights - Thought Provoking

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R Scheese

June 14, 2017

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Just finished Daniel Pink's research summary on motivation. Terrific insights and a thought provoking read. A big fan of his work, Daniel Pink seems to find topics where the science and research has outpaced business and society. He builds a compelling case for a concept from the academic research findings and weaves in a few real world examples to create an engaging challenge. Drive takes on the concept of motivation. Pink challenges us as leaders educators, parents,etc. to upgrade from a command & control, "carrot & stick" Motivation 2.0 world to create a Motivation 3.0 environment which fosters an individual's autonomy, mastery and purpose. Drive is about helping the inividual achieve their full potential and is a well crafted book that will be a re-read again and again. I highly recommend checking this one out.

6 people found this helpful

Informative but sometimes repetitive

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CarlosSays

January 17, 2014

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The meat of this book starts right before the midpoint. The author gives lots of data to back-up his theory and then goes on to repeat it in a few different ways. Once you get to the fundamentals applications, some of the ideas seem great in theory but require a huge shift in your paradigm from the past. Also, many of the examples are really feasible to all businesses so if you're looking to "explode" your business carefully evaluate the suggestions against your staff, product, resources, etc. Ironically, many of the examples cited are multimillion dollar companies but I could see where a small start-up would have difficulty implementing these suggestions.

Overall, good insight into what drives people to be successful but take the suggestions and apply them accordingly.

12 people found this helpful

Didn't tell me anything I didn't already intuitively know

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Slick Rhoads

January 1, 2018

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My summary of the book: We want to direct our own lives, work on things we like (in a way we like to do them), and feel like the work we are doing has some sort of lasting value (bigger purpose). Anything we can do to help others in those areas goes a long way toward motivating them. I feel like I could have articulated this BEFORE reading the book, which is why I'm giving it only three stars.

The one thing I thought was particularly interesting was the idea that rewarding performance in an "if-then" way ("if you do X, I'll give you Y") can actually DECREASE long-term productivity. As a software developer, I've seen this play out in real life, so it was fun to see someone formally write about this phenomenon.

Reading this book was not a waste of time. Was it a "game changer?" No.

It was a quick read, so if the topic sounds interesting to you, give it a go!

14 people found this helpful

All over the place. - not a fan

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This was a Harvard choice and I was not a fan. Although he amalgamated many different stances on Drive and tied them together well he thesis seems a bit empty.

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