- What motivates you?
- How do you keep yourself keyed into a task or working towards a solution when things get tough?
- How do you motivate your kids?
- Your co-workers?
- Your clients?
Dan’s ‘case’ has consolidated some of the issues I’ve been thinking about over the past few weeks – I’ve been working on my business plan (ooh) and am just about to switch this site to another theme and give it a spring clean (ahh), so I’ve been musing on where my own motivations are, why I choose to do the things that I do and why other people (especially my clients) choose to do the things they do.
So, watch and consider… maybe the things you think are other people’s main motivators are not…
- What do you think?
Please share your comments below…
Dan’s got a couple of interesting books out: Drive – The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us and A Whole New Mind – Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future.
Here’s a little video about Drive…
Two questions that can change your life from Daniel Pink on Vimeo.
and a link to Dan’s Website… Daniel H. Pink
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