Book Titles

Drive
The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

By Daniel Pink

Year Published: 2009
ISBN-13: 978-1-59448-884-9
Categories: Autonomy, Mastery, Motivation, Purpose

130 Quotes Found

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Autonomy over task has long been critical to [people’s] ability to create. And good leaders (as opposed to competent ‘managers’) understand this in their bones.

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Drive:

The billable hour is a relic… It makes some sense for routine tasks – And if your starting assumption is that workers’ default setting is to shirk.

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If we begin from an alternative, and more accurate, presumption – that people want to do good work – then we ought to let them focus on the work itself rather than the time it takes them to do it.

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Without sovereignty over our time, it’s nearly impossible to have autonomy over our lives.

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…studies… have shown that people high in intrinsic motivation are better coworkers. And that makes the possibilities on this front enormous.

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Autonomy, it turns out, can be contagious.

106

Drive:

Ample research has shown that people working in self-organized teams are more satisfied than those working in inherited teams.

106

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We’re born to be players, not pawns. We’re meant to be autonomous individuals, not individual automatons.

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Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.

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Solving complex problems requires an inquiring mind and the willingness to experiment one’s way to a fresh solution.

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