Daniel Pink breaks down what actually motivates people: autonomy (directing your own life), mastery (getting better at something), and purpose (serving something bigger than yourself). He argues these three elements should replace external rewards as the foundation of how businesses operate.
It's an approach built much more around intrinsic motivation, around the desire to do things because they matter, because we like it, because they're interesting, because they're part of something important. It revolves around 3 elements: autonomy, mastery, and purpose. Autonomy: the urge to direct our own lives. Mastery: the desire to get better and better at something that matters. And purpose: the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves. These are the building blocks of an entirely new operating system for our businesses.
