From the course: Daniel Pink on Motivation
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Purpose, mastery, autonomy
- If you're building a culture, running a team, the first step is to pay people fairly and pay people well. But once you're through that threshold, it turns out there are three key ingredients for enduring motivation, particularly for complicated creative tasks. And this is true whether people are working in your office, whether they're working remotely, or whether it's somewhere in between. Three key motivators for enduring performance, they are purpose, mastery, and autonomy, purpose, mastery, and autonomy. Purpose is do people know why they're doing something, not merely how to do it? Are they making a difference? Are they making a contribution? Mastery, are people getting better at something that matters? Are they making progress in meaningful work? Autonomy, do people have a say? Do they have some control over what they're doing, how they're doing it, who they're doing it with, where they're doing it, and when…
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