Book Review: Drive
Daniel Pink’s Drive is a must read for everyone. Again and again Pink illustrates the gapping difference between what the scientific data says about motivation and what businesses are doing.
The book is divided into three sections. Sections two and three should be read by everyone. However, after the motivation 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 discussion, the first section of the book can be skipped by anyone who has read Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational, Ori and Rom Brafman’s Sway or Marc Gerstein’s Flirting with Disaster. Those of you who haven’t yet read these books need to read all of section one because it‘s a concise review of much of the subject matter contained in these other books. For those of you who like to be thorough, Pink’s review is mostly entertaining and worth the read.
Sections two and three should be mandatory reading for everyone immersed (drowning?) in corporate culture and those who have escaped. Section two describes motivation 3.0 in greater detail (autonomy, mastery and purpose). Highlights for me in section two were the concept of ROWE (Results Only Work Environment) espoused by Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson and a revisiting of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s concept of flow.
Section three was by far my favorite though because it gave details regarding how to incorporate the three major characteristics (autonomy, mastery and purpose) into your life. Practical advice! Advice you and I can use to make change in ourselves and in our environments. Read the book, It won’t take too much time and you’ll learn a lot.
