Drive by Daniel Pink

Drive notes – Daniel Pink

Carrots and Sticks: The Seven Deadly Flaws

1.      They can extinguish intrinsic motivation

2.      Then can diminish performance

3.      They can crush creativity

4.      They can crowd out good behavior

5.      They can encourage cheating, shortcuts, and unethical behavior

6.      They can become addictive

7.      They can foster short-term thinking

From the flowchart on page 69:

Concentrate on building a healthy, long-term motivational environment that pays people fairly and that fosters autonomy, mastery, and purpose. Avoid “if-then” rewards in almost all circumstances. Consider unexpected, noncontingent “now that” rewards. And remember that those rewards will be more effective if:

1.      They offer praise and feedback rather than things people can touch or spend

2.      They provide useful information rather than an attempt to control

P. 174: “We’re bribing students into compliance instead of challenging them into engagement.”

P. 178: Offer praise the right way (Carol Dweck):

1.      Praise effort and strategy, not intelligence

2.       Make praise specific

3.      Praise in private – one on one

4.      Offer praise only when there’s a good reason for it

Page 194 – Peter Senge quote:

            “People with a high level of personal mastery are able to consistently realize the results that matter most deeply to them—in effect, they approach life as an artist would approach a work of art. They do that by becoming committed to their own lifelong learning.”

Page 73 – Behavior scientists Deci and Ryan: Human beings have an innate inner drive to:

1.      be autonomous,

2.      self-determined, and

3.       connected to one another.

And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.

Page 79

Type I behavior is made, not born. These behavioral patterns aren’t fixed traits. They are proclivities that emerge from circumstance, experience, and context. Type I behavior, because it arises in part from universal human needs, does not depend on age, gender, or nationality. The science demonstrates that once people learn the fundamental practices and attitudes—and can exercise them in supportive settings—their motivation, and their ultimate performance, soars. Any Type X (extrinsically motivated) and become a Type I (intrinsically motivated.)

Pink’s 3 elements:

           

1.      Autonomy

2.      Mastery

3.      Purpose