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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The idea that management is built on certain assumptions about the basic natures of those being managed… presumes that to take action or more forward, we need a prod…

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…our basic nature is to be curious and self-directed.

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…today economic accomplishment, not to mention personal fulfillment, more often swings on a different hinge. It depends not on keeping our nature submerged but allowing it to surface.

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…while the idea of independence has national and political reverberations, autonomy appears to be a human concept rather than a western one.

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A sense of autonomy has a powerful effect on individual performance and attitude.

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…autonomous motivation promotes greater conceptual understanding, better grades, enhanced persistence…, higher productivity, less burnout, and greater levels of psychological well-being.

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Most twenty-first-century notions of management presume that, in the end, people are pawns rather than players.

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…management isn’t the solution; it’s the problem.

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…intrinsic behavior emerges when people have autonomy over the four T’s: their task, their time, their technique, and their team.

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Autonomy measures can work in a range of fields – and offer a promising source for innovations and even institutional reforms.

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