- The puzzle of motivation – Daniel Pink
- https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_the_puzzle_of_motivation
- When – the scientific secret of timing
- @DanielPink
- https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_the_puzzle_of_motivation
Here are a few key take aways from this short Ted Talk:
Higher incentives led to worse performance
Mechanical skills = the higher the skill the higher the pay
Cognitive skill = opposite
3 items:
- Autonomy
- Self direction works really well
- Atlassian (Jira)
- Hackathon
- Fedex days
- 20 Percent Time
- I think its something we have tried to encourage with “meeting free fridays”
- ROWE (Results only work environment) – no schedules, just get the work done, meetings optional = productivity up, work satisfaction goes up
- Wikipedia vs Encarta = 90’s
- Intrinsic motivation vs Extrinsic
- Atlassian (Jira)
- Hackathon
- Self direction works really well
- Mastery
- Purpose
My challenges and take aways
- How do we get employees to be driven my intrinsic values?
- A really important component he mentioned, was if people feel like they were being compensated fairly, intrinsic motivators work extremely well. How can companies show employees they are being compensated fairly?
