Drive By Daniel Pink

Daniel Pink, author of the book, Drive, claims that the outdated motivational method of carrots and sticks is no longer applicable to most of the world. Pink assures that the old motivational method makes a person’s job dull and ultimately boring, causing a person to not place much interest in his or her work and possibly affecting them mentally. He introduces us to a revolutionary idea of how a person could have their dwindling fire reignited so that a person could better their work environment and ultimately, their life and even their health. Pink calls his new method, Motivation 3.0, which encompasses three pillars for support which are; Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose. The trio is intended to fuel anybody who has a long or short term goal and it allows a person to not only better themselves, but continue to better themselves over the course of time. …show more content…
Pink’s Motivation 3.0 is extremely useful because it sheds light on the difficult problem of people losing interest in their work or even companies seeing some of its employees behaving unethically. As Pink states, “Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined and connect to each other” a comment that express his overall argument of the three pillars of motivation 3.0 (71). I for one agree with Daniel Pink and his new method of seeing an obstacle. With motivation 3.0 a person would make a transition from being compliant in the work force and would reach a level of engagement with his or her work, and enter a state of flow, that would help a person better their work and allowing them to contribute to the community and only making the employees feeling much better about their