Drive, by Dan Pink

Overview: Motivation can be best enhanced by leveraging three innately human components: Purpose (connecting to why what you do matters on a personal level), Mastery (the opportunity to enhance your skills and capabilities in areas of interest), and Autonomy (the freedom to choose what, how, when, and with whom you do your work). 

Key Takeaway: A robust study found that monetary rewards only increased performance for mechanical work. For knowledge workers, monetary rewards for performance had a surprising inverse effect, harming performance. For knowledge workers, the idea is to pay enough to take money off the table, and then focus on innate human desires for Purpose, Mastery, and Autonomy. 
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Bonus Tip: ​“When the reward is the activity itself--deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best--there are no shortcuts.”

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