leadership Notes from Dan Pink
Image via WikipediaThese are the key thoughts from Dan Pink’s session at the Leadership Summit that grabbed my attention. Dan is the author of Drive, a book I’ve highlighted here and here in recent weeks.
- “If-then rewards work really well for simple tasks. However, they don’t work very well for more complicated creative tasks.”
- “One of the problems that we have in our organizations is that we make the wrong assumptions about people.”
- “One of the false assumptions is that people are machines.”
- Another false assumption is that “human begins are blobs.”
- “Our nature is to be active and engaged.”
- People need: autonomy, mastery and purpose
- “Management wasn’t delivered to us from God.”
- “Management is a technology designed to get compliance.”
- “We want engagement. Management doesn’t lead to engagement. Self-direction leads to engagement.”
- “Give people autonomy over their time, team, task and technique. That leads to engagement.”
- “Making progress is the single greatest motivator at work.”
- “We want challenge.”
- “Performance reviews are not authentic conversations.”
- “I think we are seeing the limits of the profit motive. The profit-motive is a good thing, but it’s not the only thing.”
- “The only way people will be enduringly motivated is if they’re animated by something bigger than themselves.”
- “I’m convinced that anything good in life began with a conversation. That’s what changes the world.”
