Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Daniel H. Pink

RIVERHEAD, 2009 - Self-Help - 242 pages

Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people—at work, at school, at home. It's wrong. As Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others) explains in his paradigm-shattering book Drive, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world 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 our lives. He demonstrates that while the old-fashioned carrot-and-stick approach worked successfully in the 20th century, it's precisely the wrong way to motivate people for today's challenges. In Drive, he reveals the three elements of true motivation:

*Autonomy—the desire to direct our own lives
*Mastery—the urge 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

Along the way, he takes us to companies that are enlisting new approaches to motivation and introduces us to the scientists and entrepreneurs who are pointing a bold way forward.

Drive is bursting with big ideas—the rare book that will change how you think and transform how you live.

What people are saying

Review: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

User Review  - Kony - Goodreads

Nothing here is mind-blowing or completely new (unless you've spent the past decade under a rock). But it's a competent summary of scientific understandings of motivation, coupled with practical ...

Review: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

User Review  - Fiona Leonard - Goodreads

As a homeschooling, self employed person, this book didn't come as a huge surprise, but it is one that I really enjoyed. I suspect it is because this is a book that sets down on paper what your gut ...

About the author

Daniel H. Pink is the author of five books, including To Sell Is Human and the long-running New York Times bestsellers A Whole New Mind and Drive. His books have been translated into thirty-three languages and have sold more than a million copies in the United States alone. Pink lives with his family in Washington, D.C.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
• Author: Daniel H. Pink
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: RIVERHEAD, 2009
• ISBN: 1594488843, 9781594488849
• Length: 242 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Motivational; Psychology / Industrial & Organizational Psychology; Self-Help / Personal Growth / Success