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Drive : the surprising truth about what motivates us / Daniel H. Pink.

By: Pink, Daniel H.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Edinburgh : Canongate, 2011Description: xii, 242 p. ; 20 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 9781847677693.Subject(s): Motivation (Psychology) | SuccessDDC classification: 153.1534
Contents:
Introduction: the puzzling puzzles of Harry Harlow and Edward Deci -- Part one: A new operating system -- The rise and fall of motivation 2.0 -- Seven reasons carrots and sticks (often) don't work ... -- ... and the special circumstances when they do -- Type I and type X -- Part three: The three elements -- Autonomy -- Mastery -- Purpose -- Part three: The type I toolkit.
Summary: Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people - at work, at school, at home. It is wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his paradigm-shattering book Drive, 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 the world. 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.
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General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 153.1534 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00133835
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-229) and index.

Introduction: the puzzling puzzles of Harry Harlow and Edward Deci -- Part one: A new operating system -- The rise and fall of motivation 2.0 -- Seven reasons carrots and sticks (often) don't work ... -- ... and the special circumstances when they do -- Type I and type X -- Part three: The three elements -- Autonomy -- Mastery -- Purpose -- Part three: The type I toolkit.

Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people - at work, at school, at home. It is wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his paradigm-shattering book Drive, 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 the world. 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.