Daniel H. Pink, is the author of the bestselling A Whole New Mind and Free Agent Nation.
Both books were excellent.
His latest book, Drive explores what truly motivates us and how we can use that knowledge to work smarter and live better.
Most of us believe that the best way to motivate ourselves and others is with external rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. Pink says in, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us,the secret to high performance and satisfaction—at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.
He asserts that drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, the mismatch between what science knows and what business does—and how that affects every aspect of life is significant.
His work is important and certainly human resources departments should be adding to their library.
Justin Patten