

What I liked was that it broke down which types of work can be motivated by carrots and sticks and which types of work can't. While Drive is like a lot of business books that focus on a new trend-i.e., really just an extended magazine article-it does hammer home some salient points. Drive says for 21st century work, we need to upgrade to autonomy, mastery & purpose." In a nutshell-or should I say, in a "tweet"-which Pink so gamely prepares for us: "Carrots & sticks are so last century. Pink is one of those books that makes you wonder why we are having so much trouble getting over the command-and-control/face- time-and-billable-hours business models.

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