Monday, January 10, 2011

What Really Motivates Us

I came across a great talk by Dan Pink at the RSA. It might help you understand human motivation to work especially relevant in the modern workplace.
He says three factors shown by scientific research that lead to better performance and personal satisfaction are Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose. Watch the video for details:



Dan Pink also gave a similar talk at TED sometime back which some of you might have seen:


The TED talk doesn't seem to appear embedded in Google reader, so here is the direct link.

2 comments:

Nikhil said...

Oh wow I loved this Talk... the candle problem.. 2 gud!
They made an RSA Animate of it!?!

Tina said...

Hi Nikhil..Glad you liked it. The talk given by Dan Pink at RSA (the first one, whcih they used to create the RSA Animate version) is slightly different from the talk given at TED. You might want to check that one too.