Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
The secret to high performance and satisfaction is the human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.
Category Work-Life Quality: Leadership
Details New York Times Best Seller!

Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people--at work, at school, at home. It's wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his new and paradigm- shattering book "Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us," the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world 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 our lives. He demonstrates that while the old-fashioned carrot-and-stick approach worked successfully in the 20th century, it's precisely the "wrong" way to motivate people for today's challenges. In "Drive," he reveals the three elements of true motivation:
  • Autonomy - the desire to direct our own lives
  • Mastery - the urge to get better and better at something that matters
  • Purpose - the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves
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.
Author Daniel H. Pink
Publication Date December 29, 2009
Source Putnam
Format Hardcover (272 Pages, 6.5 x 9.5 x 1 in)
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Recommended For For anyone interested in understanding the principals underlying human motivation and how it can be successfully applied in a business context.