Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. PinkForget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people at work, at school, at home. It is wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his paradigm shattering book Drive, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and the world. Along the way, he takes us to companies that are enlisting new approaches to

Stalinist Russia was seen as its target

Everyone in town knows he did it

we are the solution

Forced to hide out

given knowledge of each other's most intimate secrets

From the Vikings to Clarence Birdseye

who taught him of love’s irreducible mystery as she lay dying in a hospital bed while he worked nearby on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos

as you're about to get back to work

providing a wealth of practical tools for those wishing to make a living from the markets

not the rule

Written when Mishima was only twentysix

had nothing to leave - except a letter he had never opened himself