Daniel Pink explains the science of self-motivation
The surprising truth about what motivates us by Daniel Pink & RSA We thought we posted already this video. Indeed, Dan Pink achieves here one of the best popularizations of the scientific work...
The Self-Management Institute says freedom constitutes the lasting competitive advantage
Self-Management and the Holy Grail by Paul Green We like this Paul Green’s article he published in Morning Star Self-Management Institute’s Synaptein newsletter (Winter 2011). Here are few excerpts: Competitive advantage is generally...
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Why people are happiest on weekends—not at work
There’s a reason you’re happiest on weekends By Sharon Jayson, USA TODAY JANUARY 12, 2010 It may be no surprise that people are happier on weekends. But research out today looks at the...
Wilhelm Röpke on Why Do We Work
A Humane Economist on the Meaning of Work A possibly apocryphal story highlights the key idea of this 20th century German-Swiss economist. Röpke was walking along a road with a famous colleague Ludwig...
How managing stifles initiative and prevents joy
Psychologists on the impossibility of management—even for NINA puzzles The University of Rochester psychologists Edward Deci, Richard Ryan, and their associates carried, perhaps, the most ambitious contemporary theoretical and empirical research on motivation....
Neuroscience shows threats bad and freedom good
Managing with the Brain in Mind David Rock AUTUMN 2009, ISSUE 56 …Although a job is often regarded as a purely economic transaction, in which people exchange their labor for financial compensation, the...
On the focus on money
Mitch Albom “People are only mean when they’re threatened and that’s what our culture does… And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god....
McKinsey Quarterly on non-material motivators
Motivating people: Getting beyond money M. Dewhurst, M. Guthridge, & E. Mohr NOVEMBER 2009 Companies around the world are cutting back their financial-incentive programs, but few have used other ways of inspiring talent....
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Henry Ford “If a man thinks he can or cannot perform a task, he’s right.”