The Puzzle of Motivation

02/03/2016

Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.
Erol Ozon, professor and writer

My article, "12 Reasons People Love to Work for You," in the November/December issue of Exchange Live, the interactive digital version of Exchange magazine, contains bonus material including a TED Talk where Dan Pink shares results from experiments about what truly motivates people at work. He concludes...

"There is a mismatch between what science knows and what business does. Here is what science knows. One: Those 20th century rewards, those motivators we think are a natural part of business, do work, but only in a surprisingly narrow band of circumstances. Two: Those if-then rewards often destroy creativity. Three: The secret to high performance isn't rewards and punishments, but that unseen intrinsic drive — the drive to do things for their own sake. The drive to do things because they matter."

Check out this TED Talk by going to "12 Reasons People Love to Work for You" and scrolling down to the TED Talk box. While you are there, use the right and left arrows on the sides of the page to view the entire issue. Then, if you like it, subscribe to Exchange Live and get every issue on your desktop and your mobile devices!

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