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Drive: Creative Work Requires Autonomy

Twitter Summary:  Creative people need to feel they are in control!

Principle

Last week I wrote a post called How Money Does More Harm Than Good, my take on a principle from Dan Pink’s book Drive.  The gist of that post is that financial incentives most often ruin the intrinsic value of creative work.  Today I want to tell you about one of the things Pink says drives creative work: autonomy.  He says there are three things that drive creative work instead of financial rewards: autonomy, mastery, and purpose.

Dan Pink writes that creative workers are most successful when they have autonomy over the 4 T’s: task, time, technique, and team.

Task: If people are allowed to decide what task is the highest priority for their effort, the results are amazing...