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 Good info but a bit redundant March 15, 2010
Tommie Gatlin (Nashville, TN, US)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The three poinst Pink makes are that intrinsic motivation is based on purpose, mastery and autonomy.
There are some great examples and he makes some great points. The book gets a bit redundant at the end. I think
there are other books about intrinsic motivation that are excellent as well such as Flow and Full Throttle, which I would recommend.
Am I driven more? March 15, 2010
TDM (Colorado Springs, CO)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Drive by Daniel Pink is a quality reflection on what motivates others and yourself. Some of his ideas are new and others are ones that we, as a reader, may just not have thought of recently. The book is simply set into three parts and here is my summary of the parts. Part 1: How does motivation play a role in society? Part 2: 3 keys to being a driven person, Part 3: Tool kit to become better. The best part of the entire book is in the tool kit portion which is dedicated to make you a more driven person as well as focusing hard on "driving" those who may work for you to be better. This book is both technical and practical. The ideas written about are not revolutionary but really make you think of how to do things better. Drive is a solid read that is very much set up for people who are leaders within any type of organization or those who are wanting to better themselves.
 What Science Indicates, But Business Ignores About Motivation March 14, 2010
L. M. Frecks (Omaha, NE USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Daniel Pink's Drive is a must read for everyone. Again and again Pink illustrates the gapping difference between what the scientific data says about motivation and what businesses are doing.
The book is divided into three sections. Sections two and three should be read by everyone. However, after the motivation 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 discussion, the first section of the book can be skipped by anyone who has read Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational, Ori and Rom Brafman's Sway or Marc Gerstein's Flirting with Disaster. Those of you who haven't yet read these books need to read all of section one because it`s a concise review of mush of the subject matter contained in these other books. For those of you who like to be thorough, Pink's review is mostly entertaining and worth the read.
Sections two and three should be mandatory reading for everyone immersed (drowning?) in corporate culture and those who have escaped. Section two describes motivation 3.0 in greater detail (autonomy, mastery and purpose). Highlights for me in section two were the concept of ROWE - results only work environment espoused by Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson and a revisiting of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's concept of flow.
Section three was by far my favorite though because it gave details regarding how to incorporate the three major characteristics (autonomy, mastery and purpose) into your life. Practical advice! Advice you and I can use to make change in ourselves and in our environments. Read the book, It won't take too much time and you'll learn a lot.
People don't lead people, people lead themselves! March 12, 2010
L. David Marquet
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
My name is David Marquet, from Practicum, Inc and we help our customers structure their organizations to maximize the potential of their people. We call this leadership. When we talk with our clients one of the things we ask them is "do you need your boss to motivate you?" Very few people raise their hands. Thus, it wasn't a surprise to read in Daniel Pink's recent book, Drive, that people do not respond best to external motivation.
Pink's book is very helpful because it clearly illuminates and explains what we've observed - that external motivation ends up feeling like manipulation and that people will do better in a structure that allows them to find their own intrinsic sources of motivation.
What are the characteristics of those structures? Pink tells us they are structures that enable individual autonomy, mastery, and purpose. In our practice, we had been emphasizing control, competence, and connection as being important. While control parallels autonomy and mastery parallels autonomy, purpose is an element we had not singled out.
We think Pink is right, though. Connecting your activity to a higher purpose does give people a reason beyond the immediate that seems necessary to sustain enduring loyalty to the mission. This was particularly true aboard submarines, where crews that understood how their tasks, however difficult, supported a greater goal (defending the Constitution, for example), performed better.
Drive is a quick read and we recommend it.
Drive March 11, 2010
Tony LaMantia (Arizona)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Excellent for anyone interesed in motivating people: adults or children. A must read for educators!
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