Dan Pink has an outstanding TED talk about how to motivate workers in the 21st century (some readers may need to open this post to be able to view the 19 minute video). Dan’s message about the difference between what science knows versus what business does will hopefully give you a new perspective.
Leadership can get into a trap when it tries to get compliance instead of commitment or engagement. Dan discusses how incentives can do more harm for your business. The speech discusses the need to move from a reward by carrot or punishment by stick practice.
Dan also speaks about an interesting study by Dan Ariely whom I greatly admire. I wrote about how his findings can help you connect actions to cost.
Please comment with your reactions to Dan’s speech.
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