Carrot stick based motivation kills creativity and focuses absolutely in the short term to satisfy selfish motives.
Intrinsic motivation which cares for an overarching purpose rather than being driven by money , nurtures creativity and stands the test of time.
Once the sense of purpose is realised human brain loves intrinsic motivation to achieve fulfilment.
Intrinsic motivation wherein challenge I’m being able to a piece of work and joy in sharing it with others does motivate human beings in the modern era.
Look at Apache , Linux , Hadoop , git etc. and related communities where participants are engrossed in participating in sharing ideas and we can understand the power of intrinsic motivation as a major driver in the modern age.
This necessitates shifting focus from traditional modes of motivational factors.
“Drive” by Dan Pink uses this example very aptly to prove that historical economical principles that place rewards and punishment as a very important factor for motivation falls flat when it comes to “intrinsic motivation” as a major driver in the modern age open source frameworks for e.g. Wikipedia ,Apache etc. where contributors feel intrinsically motivated without feeling the need of money.
Came across this wonderful link with the 5 piece leadership advice by the TEDD talk legend Simon Sinek.
https://www.foodandwine.com/news/simon-sinek-welcome-conference
Hope you guys enjoy!!
Edward De Bono’s 6 thinking hats is a lesson in itself.The legendary author’s 6 Thinking Hats framework has shown beyond doubt how to get the best out of a brain storming session.
Just taking a stand and opposing contrary ideas , no longer works in the modern era.Parallel thinking by means of use of the 6 thinking hats framework helps cover all scenarios to come to a fruitful conclusion avoiding conflicts..
The 6 thinking hats and meaning has been provided as follows to be used on a turn by turn basis..
Black Hat – Focus on Possible dangers, critical points
Yellow Hat – Focuses on benefits and values
Green Hat – For creativity and new ideas
Red Hat – Permission to our forward emotions , feelings , intuitions
Blue Hat – For better organising
White Hat – Focus on information
In the book “The Free Mind” , Ed De Bono talks about perception as the dominant force behind influencing our thoughts.
The Harvard stalwart David Perkins goes the distance in saying that 90% of errors made by us in thoughts is due to perceptions and the rest due to logic.
This goes a long way in proving that school education that teaches us to analyse and use logic falls flat in most practical scenarios wherein a false judgement is made due to perception aka the limbic Brain.
This makes is necessary to make thinking a central focus of all modern day educational curriculum.
This fantastic book by Edward De Bono makes a mention of the fact that the Chinese because of small eyes tend to have near sighted ness and hence a majority of them use spectacles.
Since the invention of spectacles dates back to only as late as the 14th century hence the author mentions that majority of plain & ordinary looking girls would have got married to such innocent Chinese because of their near sighted ness.
This explains the high Chinese population 😀😅
For bosses to provide proper guidance to their teams , the following 7 step continuously evolving framework has been mentioned by Kim Scott in “Radical Candor”.
Listen————–>
<————– Learn Clarify —–>
< ———— Execute Debate —–>
<—— Persuade <———— Decide
Kim Scott makes a mention that a warm hug for 6 seconds can release Serotonin & Oxytocin (leadership and love hormone respectively) in our bodies.
This is the pre-requisite for long lasting relationships and formation of true social bonds.