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The surprising science of motivation

In this great presentation Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think:

Be also sure to check out his Ted presentation:

Interesting · Life · Psychology • 18. May

2 comments so far

Susi 19. May: Thx for yout help. regards.

Dieter_be 19. May

Great talk.
Thanks for sharing Amir.

As he mentions at the end I think many of us deep down already knew this, but it takes guts to actually bring these principles into existing businesses. It's certainly nice to see some companies here and there doing the right thing.