Daniel H. Pink Famous Quotes & Sayings
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ingredients of genuine motivation - autonomy, mastery, and purpose - they

The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization BY PETER M. SENGE

Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else BY GEOFF COLVIN

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience BY MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

This is what it means to serve: improving another's life and, in turn, improving the world.

Clarity depends on contrast. In

Rewards do not undermine people's intrinsic motivation for dull tasks because there is little or no intrinsic motivation to be undermined.

If you believed in the "mediocrity of the masses," as he put it, then mediocrity became the ceiling on what you could achieve.

Pitches that rhyme are more sublime.

I tend to pull nuggets out of many books - rather than having a handful of books that serve as guiding lights.

The misuse of extrinsic rewards, so common in business, impedes creativity, stifles personal satisfaction and turns play into work.

There's an idea out there that salespeople have actually been obliterated by the Internet, which is just not supported by the facts.

Inherent tendency to seek out novelty and challenges, to extend and exercise their capacities, to explore, and to learn.

Nobody "manages" the open source contributors.

In the past thirty years we have learned more about the workings of the human brain than in all of previous history.

Never argue. To win an argument is to lose a sale.

The ability to move others to exchange what they have for what we have is crucial to our survival and our happiness. It

The monkeys solved the puzzle simply because they found it gratifying to solve puzzles. They enjoyed it. The joy of the task was its own reward.

Experimentalists never know when their work is finished.

All of us want to be part of something bigger than ourselves, something that matters.

Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, a book that offers an entertaining and engaging overview of behavioral economics.

The right brain is finally being taken seriously.

Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Self-Motivation BY EDWARD L. DECI WITH RICHARD FLASTE

So get rid of the unnecessary obligations, time-wasting distractions, and useless burdens that stand in your way.

Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.

Design - that is, utility enhanced by significance - has become an essential aptitude for personal fulfillment and professional success

Do what you can't and experience the beauty of the mistakes you make.

Intrinsic motivation is conducive to creativity; controlling extrinsic motivation is detrimental to creativity.

Today it's economically crucial and personally rewarding to create something that is also beautiful, whimsical, or emotionally engaging.

An object in motion will stay in motion, and an object at rest will stay at rest, unless acted on by an outside force.

Have you ever seen a six-month-old or a three-year-old who's not curious and self-directed? I haven't. That's how we are out of the box.

It's nothing short of a whole new brain ... animated by a different form of thinking and a new approach to life.

motivators" - things like enjoyment of the work itself, genuine achievement, and personal growth.

We leave lucrative jobs to take low-paying ones that provide a clearer sense of purpose.

Identifying problems as a way to move others takes two

When the reward is the activity itself
deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best
there are no shortcuts.

The Reggio Emilia philosophy for the education of young children and the Waldorf schools.