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Tag: Drive By Dan Pink

  • Wondering about “Personal Branding” , this is a great tip

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Daniel Pink

    I think the more important task for a young person than developing a personal brand is figuring out what she’s great at, what she loves to do, and how she can use that to leave an imprint in the world. Those are tough questions, but essential ones. Answer those – and the personal brand follows.”

  • This highlights the reason for the growing importance of “Right Brain Thinking”

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Daniel Pink from the book Drive

    What’s important now are the characteristics of the brain’s right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.”

  • Compliance works against personal fulfillment , this explains how

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Daniel Pink from the book Drive

    While complying can be an effective strategy for physical survival, it’s a lousy one for personal fulfillment. Living a satisfying life requires more than simply meeting the demands of those in control. Yet in our offices and our classrooms we have way too much compliance and way too little engagement. The former might get you through the day, but only the latter will get you through the night.”

  • This is a great insight to avoid setting unhealthy goals

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Daniel Pink from the book Drive

    Goals that people set for themselves and that are devoted to attaining mastery are usually healthy. But goals imposed by others–sales targets, quarterly returns, standardized test scores, and so on–can sometimes have dangerous side effects.”

  • Want to foster creativity at the workplace , this great tip will help

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Daniel Pink from the book Drive

    Especially for fostering creative, conceptual work, the best way to use money as a motivator is to take the issue of money off the table so people concentrate on the work.”

  • This is what makes EMPATHY a prerequisite for great leadership

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Daniel Pink from the book Drive

    Empathy is about standing in someone else’s shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place. ”

  • This is the kind of work that is difficult to OUTSOURCE

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Daniel Pink from the book Drive

    A lot of white-collar work requires less of the routine, rule-based, what we might call algorithmic set of capabilities, and more of the harder-to-outsource, harder-to-automate, non-routine, creative, juristic – as the scholars call it – abilities.”

  • These are risks associated with Adoption of Short sighted goals with high payoffs

    Adopted from the following great insight shared by Daniel Pink..

    A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They’ll become myopic. They’ll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.”

  • This is the thought process behind Motivation 3.0

    Motivation 3.0 is new age motivational techniques centered around intrinsic motivation.This is a term coined by Daniel Pink in his book Drive.

    The following quote from the book highlights why Motivation 3.0 is the way forward to drive better results in this the knowledge worker age.

    “Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.”

  • These are the building blocks of Motivation 3.0

    Motivation 3.0 is a term coined by Daniel Pink in his book Drive to highlight the new human operating system prevalent in modern day businesses based on creativity , innovation..This hinges around intrinsic motivation and the following three notable components..

    Autonomy: the urge to direct our own lives.

    Mastery: the desire to get better and better at something that matters.

    Purpose: the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves.

    These are the building blocks of an entirely new operating system for our businesses.