Daniel Pink breaks down what actually drives people: autonomy, the freedom to direct your own work; mastery, getting better at something that matters; and purpose, knowing why it matters. These three elements replace the old carrot-and-stick approach to motivation.
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. 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.
