A Book Review of Daniel Pink’s DRIVE.
I’ve just got round to reading Daniel Pink’s book Drive, subtitled The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.
He identifies the key drivers to people doing better things (primarily at work) and feeling better about things as Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose.
Autonomy is having a strong degree of personal direction, Mastery is having room to grow and to keep becoming better and Purpose is keeping a balancing act between a relentless profit motive and an eye to a greater good.
Continue reading ‘What Drives Us Is More Productive Than What Drives Me’
- Any organisation is one thing. We must never forget that it is only our metaphors that make it seem many things.
I was at a seminar on Agile Business Processes at the Daresbury Innovation Campus yesterday. I like going to stuff there – the cross-fertilisation of people, ideas and subjects is hugely stimulating.
Continue reading ‘Is it Hard? Is it Soft? No, it’s a Whole!’
- putting people at the heart of Human Resources
I was talking to a group of senior HR practitioners the other day about what they see as the really important issues within organisations – and it was an interesting glimpse into how the “people” side is commonly framed.
We were discussing what the organisation needs to provide and what people need to bring to the corporate party with them.
Continue reading ‘The Topline and the Bottomline of Great Corporate Culture’
- Making Community Contribution & Recognition come alive
I was trying to explain our way of Community Contribution & Recognition to a group of people the other day.
By this we refer to what we see as the key dynamising force of a productively happy life – the need to be part of a productive social grouping, the need to be able to play one’s part (subject to generous welfare provision which recognises essential human worth), and the need to be recognised in multiple ways beyond the simply material.
Continue reading ‘In our Souls, Minds & Hearts’
