Drive By Daniel H. Pink: Chapter Analysis

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Shelbi Adams February 15, 2015 MGT 3376-001 Discussion Leader Assignment Drive In the first chapter of Drive, written by Daniel H. Pink, there has been one key issue with the truth about what motivates people. This one key issue is that the current operating system, Motivation 2.0, has become far less compatible with how we organize what we do, how we think about what we do, and how we do what we do. This operating system also suggested that human beings aren’t much different from livestock, meaning that the way to get employees moving in the right direction is by dangling a crunchier carrot or wielding a sharper stick. This chapter has found that different operating systems work effectively in society until they don’t anymore; as time goes on and society progresses, motivators and human dynamics change. A good real world example of our current operating system, Motivation 2.0, is the encyclopedia face-off with Microsoft and Wikipedia. Motivation 2.0 suggests that Wikipedia, the giant online all-voluntary encyclopedia, shouldn’t even exist because it defies the laws of behavioral physics. This chapter greatly contributes to the knowledge of…show more content…
It was stated at the beginning of the chapter that thousands of years ago, there was an operating system called Motivation 1.0 that was based on the human need to survive, to hunt and gather. That operating system worked well until it didn’t anymore, which led to the new and current operating system, Motivation 2.0. Chapter one went on to describe that this motivation system has some serious flaws and old, rigid assumptions. My question is: why isn’t a new operating system, maybe Motivation 3.0, formed to support existing beliefs and new technologies that we as a society have? I don’t believe that author overlooked anything in this chapter, but I still pose the question of why haven’t we moved on to a new and better operating

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