TedX: The puzzle of Motivation(Daniel Pink)
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In this talk, Dan Pink challenges the belief that rewards and incentives always lead to better performance, arguing that they can actually hinder creativity and innovation.
Highlights
- 💰 Extrinsic motivators, such as rewards and bonuses, work well for tasks with a clear goal and simple rules, but can hinder performance for more complex tasks.
- 🧠 The more important skills in today’s workforce are right-brained and creative, and if-then rewards are not effective for these kinds of tasks.
- 🌍 A study by Dan Ariely and colleagues found that higher incentives actually led to worse performance in tasks that involved cognitive skill, even in a culture where rewards were more meaningful.
- 📊 The empirical evidence shows a mismatch between what science knows about human motivation and what businesses do to motivate employees.
- 🤔 Pink’s argument is not a philosophical one or a matter of personal opinion, but is based on the robust findings of social science research.
