Dan Pink: The Puzzle of Motivation

Link to TED "The Puzzle of Motivation" by Dan Pink

Click the link above to watch the quick presentation that Dan Pink makes about how the way business is run in the majority by the incentives and that creativity can not thrive in this atmosphere of carrot-on-a-stick incentives and punishments. These incentives are given to extrinsically motivate employees under a hierarchical organizational structure.  This doesn't work as well as giving more autonomy to the employee and giving them an atmosphere to be more intrinsically motivated. In a more autonomous work environment, creativity and innovation can thrive.

Side note: This video relates to a term called, Hacker Ethic. In light of the recent news about the hackers having infiltrated U.S. businesses and such, it made me think of this name that the current literature on creativity gives about Hacker Ethic: "an individual persistence and motivation that a person brings to an experience"(Richard E. West • Michael J. Hannafin in the article titled Learning to design collaboratively: Participation of student designers in a Community of Innovation published online 30-Oct-2010)