DRIVE - The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

About the book:
From Daniel H. Pink, the author of the bestselling A Whole New Mind. comes a paradigm-shattering look at 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. That's a mistake, Daniel H. Pink, says in Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, his provocative and persuasive new book. 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.
Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does-and how that affects every aspect of life. He demonstrates that while carrots and sticks worked successfully in the twentieth century, that's precisely the wrong way to motivate people for today's challenges. In Drive, he examines the three elements of true motivation-autonomy, mastery and purpose-and offers smart and surprising techniques for putting these into action. Drive is bursting with big ideas-the rare book that will change how you think and transform how you live.

About the author:
Daniel H. Pink is the author of A Whole New Mind, a long-running New York Times and Business Week bestseller that has been translated into twenty languages. Besides writing two other bestselling books, The Adventures of Johnny Bunko and Free Agent Nation, Pink has contributed to The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Wired. He also lectures to corporations, associations, and universities around the world on economic transformation and the new workplace. Pink lives in Washington D.C., with his family.
www.danpink.com

Book Reviews
"Drive is the rare book that will get you to think and inspire you to act. Pink makes a strong, science based case for rethinking motivation-and then provides the tools you need to transform your life."
- Dr. Mehmet Oz, coauthor of You: The Owner's manual

"Pink has a knack for teaching in such an entertaining way that you'll forget you are learning."
-Forbes