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It requires people to forfeit their autonomy. Contingent rewards-if you do this, then you’ll get that-can transform an interesting task into a drudge by diminishing intrinsic motivation.Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do.Punishing an activity will get you less of it. Motivation 2.0 has two simple ideas: Rewarding an activity will get you more of it.

For a growing number of people, work is often creative, interesting, and self-directed rather than unrelentingly routine, boring, and other-directed.Ģ) Seven Reasons Carrots and Sticks (Often) Don’t Work….

People are not only extrinsically motivated profit maximizers, but also intrinsically motivated purpose maximizers.

As organizations flatten, companies need people who are self-motivated.

Intrinsic motivation is conducive to creativity controlling extrinsic motivation is detrimental to creativity. But they can be devastating for heuristic ones.

External rewards and punishments-both carrots and sticks-can work nicely for algorithmic tasks.

Artistic, empathic, non-routine work generally cannot.

Routine work can be outsourced or automated.

Heuristic tasks require experimentation with possibilities until you devise a novel solution.

Algorithmic tasks can be followed with a set of established instructions.

The success of open source software demonstrates a new business model for the 21st century.

Our current operating system has become far less compatible with how we organize what we do how we think about what we do and how we do what we do.A clear purpose for a cause greater than yourself is a powerful source of renewable motivation.Mastery is engaging in deliberate practice with a worthy pursuit.High performance requires personal autonomy over task, time, team, and technique.Intrinsic motivation relies on autonomy, mastery, and purpose.Traditional if-then rewards can work for rule-based routine tasks, but they’re ineffective and counter-productive for non-routine, creative knowledge work.Instead, the work poised to take off in tomorrow’s economy-characterized by non-routine and creative activities-can only flourish when people are given autonomy to pursue mastery with a clear purpose of contributing to something larger than ourselves. Daniel Pink argues that most businesses have failed to upgrade their ineffective “carrot-and-stick” motivators. Drive is about understanding human psychology and the forces of motivation in the 21st-century economy.