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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (Daniel H. Pink)

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Monday, March 14, 2022 7:36:49 PM

  1. "This simple inquiry can offer a glimpse into the soul of your enterprise. If people don't know why they're doing what they're doing, how can you expect them to be motivated to do it?"

Monday, March 14, 2022 7:51:26 PM

  1. "Indeed, other economists have shown that providing an employee a high level of base pay does more to boost performance and organizational commitment than an attractive bonus structure."

Monday, March 14, 2022 7:53:00 PM

  1. "When metrics are varied, they're harder to finagle."

Monday, March 14, 2022 7:57:35 PM

  1. "We're bribing students into compliance instead of challenging them into engagement."

Monday, March 14, 2022 8:07:16 PM

  1. "H ere's why an allowance is good for kids: Having a little of their own money, and deciding how to save or spend it, offers a measure of autonomy and teaches them to be responsible with cash."

Saturday, March 12, 2022 1:07:36 PM

  1. "If they feel Zappos isn't for them and want to leave, he'll pay them $2,000 no hard feelings. Hsieh"

Saturday, March 12, 2022 1:08:28 PM

  1. "BMW, and Apple and roughly equal to ritzy"

Saturday, March 12, 2022 1:08:31 PM

  1. "BMW, and Apple and roughly equal to ritzy"

Saturday, March 12, 2022 1:08:33 PM

  1. "BMW, and Apple and roughly equal to ritzy"

Saturday, March 12, 2022 1:08:36 PM

  1. "BMW, and Apple and roughly equal to ritzy"

Sunday, March 13, 2022 10:16:27 AM

  1. "Children careen from one flow moment to another, animated by a sense of joy, equipped with a mindset of possibility, and working with the dedication of a West Point cadet."

Sunday, March 13, 2022 10:17:51 AM

  1. "children seek out flow with the inevitability of a natural law. So should we all."

Sunday, March 13, 2022 7:07:32 PM

  1. "A healthy society and healthy business organizations begins with purpose and considers profit a way to move toward that end or a happy by-product of its attainment."

Sunday, March 13, 2022 7:10:08 PM

  1. "deep-seated desire to direct our own lives, to extend and expand our abilities, and to live a life of purpose."

Sunday, March 13, 2022 9:36:36 AM

  1. "One source of frustration in the workplace is the frequent mismatch between what people must do and what people can do."

Sunday, March 13, 2022 9:43:08 AM

  1. "Mastery is a mindset ."

Sunday, March 13, 2022 9:44:00 AM

  1. "you believe intelligence is something you can increase, then the same encounters"

Sunday, March 13, 2022 9:44:14 AM

  1. "you believe intelligence is something you can increase, then the same encounters become opportunities for growth."

Sunday, March 6, 2022 6:45:50 PM

  1. "organizations."

Thursday, March 10, 2022 10:14:28 AM

  1. "Gunther thinks that in a ROWE environment, employees are far less likely to jump to another job for a $10,000 or even $20,000 increase in salary. The freedom they have to do great work is more valuable, and harder to match, than a pay raise and employees' spouses, partners, and families are among ROWE's staunchest advocates."

Thursday, March 10, 2022 10:15:05 AM

  1. "They're not resources. They're partners. And partners, like all of us, need to direct their own lives."

Thursday, March 10, 2022 10:50:35 AM

  1. "This offbeat off-day gave birth to several ideas for new products and plenty of repairs and patches on existing ones."

Tuesday, March 15, 2022 2:05:29 PM

  1. "Type I Insight : If you set a goal of becoming an expert in your business, you would immediately start doing all kinds of things you don't do now."

Tuesday, March 15, 2022 2:06:36 PM

  1. "The best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to the limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile."

Tuesday, March 15, 2022 2:10:22 PM

  1. "Interpret challenges not as roadblocks, but as opportunities to stretch yourself."

Tuesday, March 15, 2022 2:10:29 PM

  1. "Use the language of growth for example, I'm not sure I can do it now, but I think I can learn with time and effort."

Tuesday, March 15, 2022 2:33:50 PM

  1. "More important, it will make you wonder how much human potential we're losing when so many people are denied these advantages."

Tuesday, March 15, 2022 2:34:20 PM

  1. "$75,000 a year and working in a tollbooth"

Tuesday, March 15, 2022 2:35:26 PM

  1. "He was self-confident enough to surround himself with rivals who excelled in areas where he was weak."

Tuesday, March 15, 2022 2:42:30 PM

  1. "Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace BY RICARDO SEMLER"

Tuesday, March 15, 2022 2:54:45 PM

  1. "1. Lead with questions, not answers. 2. Engage in dialogue and debate, not coercion. 3. Conduct autopsies, without blame. 4. Build Ôred flag' mechanisms. In other words, make it easy for employees and customers to speak up when they identify a problem."

Tuesday, March 15, 2022 2:59:44 PM

  1. "People at all levels stop doing any activity that is a waste of their time, the customer's time, or their"

Tuesday, March 15, 2022 3:00:01 PM

  1. "Employees have the freedom to work any way they want. Every meeting is optional. There are no work schedules."