In this book, author Daniel Pink (@DanielPink) makes a strong case for us to upgrade to Motivation 3.0 !
It’s time to #makeTheShift from Profit-driven (Motivation 2.0) to Purpose-driven (Motivation 3.0). He also talks about different types of personalities such as Type X, Type Y, and Type I. He goes onto providing us a toolkit if we want to #transform into Type I personality, along with the list of books that can help us on that journey.
A must-read!
Three Quotes from the book:
- Warning: Goals are Toxic! Goals may cause systemic problems to organizations due to narrowed focus, unethical behavior, increased risk taking, decreased cooperation, and decreased intrinsic motivation. Use care when applying Goals in your organization.
- Sawyer Effect: practices that can either turn play into work or work into play
- Motivation 3.0 doesn’t reject profits, but it places equal emphasis on purpose maximization. Employees are not Resources, Employees are Partners
Three tips from the book:
- Replace IF…Then motivation with NOW…That.. motivation
- Management is a Technology, and we need to update it to new operating system Motivation 3.0
- Turn company-wide meetings to FedEx days
Tools/techniques mentioned in the book:
- FedEx days
- Goldilock Tasks
- Now..That rewards
- Autonomy Audit
- ROWE
- Sawyer Effect
- 20% Time
- Flow
- Sagmeister / Take [365-day] Sabbatical
- Brain Bombs
- Take a Page from Webber and a card from your pocket
- Make it ‘no competition’ zone
TED Video
Type I toolkit
- Flow Test
- Ask BIG question
- Ask Small Questions: Small Improvements, Was I better today than yesterday?
- Sagmeister – Take [365 day] sabbatical
- Performance review: Set smaller goals as well as larger goals
- Unstuck by going oblique
- Take a Page from Webber and a card from your pocket
- Promote Goldilocks for Groups
- Convert Offsite to FedEx days
Books for Type I
- Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by James P. Carse
- Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Why We Do What We Do by Edward L. Deci & Richard Flaste
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
- Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
- Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet by Howard Gardner, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, &William Damon
- Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal by David Halberstam
- Punished by Rewards:The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise, and Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn
- Once a Runner by John L. Parker, Jr.
- The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield
- Maverick:The Success Story Behind the World’s Most Unusual Workplace by Ricardo Semler
- The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge
In summary, Type I personality draws on resources that are easily replenished, inflict little damage, inexpensive, and clean.
Question: Are you Type I, Type X, or Type Y?
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