I recently read….okay listened to the book “Drive” The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. Daniel Pink does an excellent job in presenting facts on how we are motivated and what the current “dangling the carrot” motivation theory actually does for us.
Our current culture is all about incentives and compensation. According to Daniel Pink, the facts state that people can be the most productive when compensation factors are taken away. He does not argue against compensation but rather that by incentivizing a workforce you are injecting negative factors into your culture. Incentives are merely temporary and will not secure a productive workforce. He even makes case for cooperation amongst your colleagues rather than competition.
Google requires their employees to use 20% of their working hours and invest in a project of their choice. Some of Google’s most productive creations have come from this concept i.e. Gmail.
Early in the book Daniel Pink states his case with the Wikipedia phenomena as an example. From that point on you will be hooked. Let us know what you think….
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