Dan Pink is Shaking Things Up!

Have you seen Dan Pink’s new book Drive?  He questioned all of our assumptions about what motivates us.  He found that money is an excellent incentive for rote and mechanical tasks, but for work that requires creativity, insight, discretionary energy (solving problems in your car on the way home) the research is very clear.  We are motivated by a combination of three things:

1. Autonomy – a feeling of being self directed.

2. Connectedness – a sense of being in the know, understnading what the work is all for, a clear idea of how my contribution is making a difference to greater good.

3. Mastery – an opportunity to get really good at things and new things. 

For more info you can get the book or watch this incrdibly fun and cool RSA Animate very short version of the key points of the research.  My husband just showed this to a group of Club Managers and it rocked their world.  To those of us who really are motivated by the above three things, it seems like a bit of a no brainer, but I thought that about Emotional Intelligence too. You will LOVE this.