Comments on: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

By: From team self-organization to enterprise self-organization | Analytical-Mind

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:21:37 +0000

[...] controlling what their team does, when they do it and even how they will be delivering the work. As Dan Pink [...]

By: The Carrot Principle – Using Recognition to Increase Team Performance | Analytical-Mind

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:34:01 +0000

[...] above average salary is enough to keep people motivated, salary alone is not a good motivator. As Daniel Pink described, above an acceptable base salary, salary no longer is a good motivator. As such, managers often [...]

By: Real-life laboratory for human experiments – The case of an Agile organization | Analytical-Mind

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:42:00 +0000

[...] As the first post on the inner working of our Agile organization, I will explain the root cause of this difference. More posts will follow on self-organization, agile management, governance models, and growing a profitable organization by leveraging people’s inner motivation (remember autonomy, mastery and purpose?). [...]

By: Agile in a Command-and-Control Organization : What to do when upper management forces overtime? | Analytical-Mind

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 02:28:41 +0000

[...] admit up front that I am biased toward intrinsic motivation (I really loved Drive by Dan Pink) and the fact that it is well suited for an agile [...]

By: Self motivation – Alessia’s story | Analytical-Mind

Self motivation – Alessia’s story | Analytical-Mind — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:44:32 +0000

[...] few weeks ago I referred to Daniel Pink’s book (Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us) to [...]

By: TapaGeuR » ITGIF – “IT-God” It’s Friday #16

TapaGeuR » ITGIF – “IT-God” It’s Friday #16 — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:09:57 +0000

[...] days with Greg Young The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us Agile Office Space Handling Team Changes Hiring misses: When we turn someone down for the wrong [...]

By: 2nd Drive | State of Mind Coaching & Training

2nd Drive | State of Mind Coaching & Training — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:16:05 +0000

[...] what grabbed me the second time through was the paragraph where he talks about heuristics. That’s creatively looking at things a different way. Versus an algorithm. Now, it may [...]

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:43:49 +0000

I’m a software developer and for as long as I can remember my best work happens from 10pm – 2am.

The only problem with working like that is that going to bed at 2a and getting up at 6am is brutal.

Not to mention that I need to sit my butt in a chair just because someone needs to see me there has always been off kilter in my world.

I’m a typical night owl and work better at night so my bosses have always had a great person who can muddle through the day getting things done and then kick more butt at night but would I rather just get my work done when I want and do it with more efficiency? You bet!

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Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:42:50 +0000

[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Pyxis Technologies, Martin Proulx. Martin Proulx said: Do you really know what motivates people? http://bit.ly/90bc94 [...]