Next Weeks Post: Hoping to start sharing posts on the book How to Win and Influence People in the Digital Age by the Dale Carnegie group. Thought that’d be a perfect piece to show ways to transfer making and keeping friends in real life to the digital world.
Twitter Summary: Creative people need to feel they are in control!
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...