RSA Animate - Drive

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  • Behaviour change
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Social innovation

Daniel Pink provides concrete examples of how intrinsic motivation functions both at home and in the workplace. View a video of Dan Pink's talk at the RSA that inspired this animation. Download a transcript of this video (pdf).

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  • Interesting.  However this model would only work if individuals had salaries high enough "not to think" money is a motivator.   

  • Actually to avoid "ships passing in the night" effect, the Australian company is using their version of a well-known brainstorm method only occasionally, mainly to get new ideas, and also to get ideas regarding fixes of the known problems. Once the idea is clearly formulated and selected for execution then the implementation requires management, so the process you described is entirely about the implementation management, and I completely agree with all you said regarding this phase based on my own 35 years of software development (half of them in Russia).  Good luck with your projects!

  • Actually it looks like the author rediscovered a very old truth, in the words of the Bible: "No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money." Interestingly Ernst Rutherford who discovered the structure of atom used a shorter version of this idea: "you cannot serve God and Mammon", where I assume by God he meant science, and Mammon is Sumerian God of wealth, by which in this context Rutherford probably meant money. In other words when a talented scientist is doing fundamental research and is really interested to learn a new truth regarding how the world works, he can typically only succeed and make a real breakthrough if he completely devotes himself to solution of the problem. He can't distract his attention to money. For example this way Newton invented calculus. This definitely applies to creative work of a software engineer.

  • This is fascinating! Thank you for posting. 

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