Drive

The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us

By: Daniel H Pink

Narrated by: Daniel H Pink

A book that will change how you think and transform how you live.

Forget 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 motivation, and introduces us to the scientists and entrepreneurs who are pointing a bold way forward.

©2010 Daniel H Pink (P)2011 Canongate

Not quite as straight forward

Where does Drive rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

In the middle for information

Who was your favorite character and why?

no characters

How did the narrator detract from the book?

narration was good

What did you learn from Drive that you would use in your daily life?

sadly the book repeated itself a lot, and the main facts don't weigh up in light of better understanding of simple behavioural psychology

Any additional comments?

Internal and external motivation sound great but at the heart they are simple conditioned behaviours - not the conclusion the book came to

Great for Employee Retention

If you could sum up Drive in three words, what would they be?

Motivation Isnt Money

What did you like best about this story?

My understanding of what our true Drivers of Excellence is.

What’s an idea from the book that you will remember?

PURPOSE IS KEY.

Any additional comments?

I thought the book would teach me how to find my Drive. This book is more about the study of Drive. Not necessarily how to get it.

I will be listening to this again

I have enjoyed this for the second time. this time on double speed and still comes across as personable. I would strongly recommend the for folks who just have a genera LM interest in motivation as a spring board into the subject.

Nice Twist.

A lot of regurgitated info, but gives plenty of credit to the sources - all while providing good insight into the shortsightedness of money-driven motivation. Dollars aren't the best long-term motivator, and intrinsic motivation trumps extrinsic in many cases. There are also some fantastic business stories about how companies took different approaches to motivate workers. Good stuff and a quick read.

Very Good

an infinite game has no winner and no end, the goal is to keep playing