Drive Book Reviews

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Really educational!. Daniel Pink’s book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, published in 2011, explores and debunks many prevailing ideas about what motivates people. His conclusion, based upon many years of research by behavioral scientists, is that while many organizations rely on extrinsic motivation, such as wages and promotions, these theories are often untrue or incomplete, and can even be harmful. Psychological research from the middle of the twentieth century has shown that there is a significant discrepancy between what behavioral science knows about what really motivates people, and what businesses do to motivate workers. Stuck in a conservative mindset that resists change, organizations ignore or overlook the intrinsic motivations; the pleasure that people get from mastering or completing challenging activities.

Interesting!. Up until recently in human history, work for nearly everyone was tedious, hard and repetitive. The creative work that was done was performed by only a handful of the privileged, all others worked for little more than the bare necessities that kept them alive. The motivation to work was simple, the alternative was hunger and deprivation.It is only in the last few decades when there has been the appearance of a secondary motivation for masses of people to work, the intrinsic satisfaction of doing challenging tasks. In the book by Pink, this is called an intrinsic motivation and is used to describe motivations beyond the basic monetary reward of pay and the social status of being employed.

Valueable.. This is an overview of the actual book “DRIVE.“ Kind of like an abbreviated Cliff's Notes for the full book. It provides a potential reader enough information regarding this book’s content to determine if we want to invest the extra money and time to actually buy and read the entire book. As an avid reader I have personally found outlines of popular books like this one to be a very helpful and valuable service.

Awesome book!. Pink’s book ends with some practical guidelines that can be applied to motivate workers, and even children, while at the same time conceding that extrinsic motivations such as pay are still useful, as long as they are not the only motivators relied on. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink/Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review by Instaread is an excellent summary of the book. In just 15 minutes a reader gets a good overview of the book, and can from that gather whether investing in the book is a good idea.

Many points.. What motivates you? What is the difference between biological, extrinsic and intrinsic motivations? "There is a huge gap between what science knows about human motivation and how businesses and organizations operate. Leaders of the businesses and organizations can close this gap by bringing psychological research to bear on the way they organize and structure their members' and employees' activities."There are 8 Key Takeways in this Instaread summary (think DETAILED review). Here are a couple to whet your appetite:"For the most part, we've set up our lives, businesses, and modes of learning around the notion of extrinsic motivation but extrinsic motivation can actually be de-incentisizing."

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