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Drive: the surprising truth about motivation by Daniel H. Pink

Lean is all about people. In any Lean transformation project we need to motivate people, we need their support. I would like to share with you the summary of an insighful book about motivation. Twitter summary   Carrots and sticks are so last century. Drive says for 21 st century work, we need to upgrade to autonomy, mastery and purpose. Cocktail party summary   When it comes to motivation, there’s a gap between what science knows and what business does. This new approach has 3 essentials elements: 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 Chapter-by-chapter summary   Introduction: The puzzling puzzles of Harry Harlow and Edward Deci Human beings have a biological drive that includes hunger, thirst, and sex. In the middle of the twentieth century, a few scien