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RSA ANIMATE: Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

Royal Society of Arts · explainer · Watch on YouTube

Management, leadership & organizationsPsychology & human behavior

What it is

An RSA Animate whiteboard adaptation of Dan Pink's talk on what motivates people at work. It argues that beyond simple tasks, autonomy, mastery and purpose drive performance more than money.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN uses it in discussions of pay, management, and motivation as the standard short explanation of autonomy, mastery and purpose.

  • 11 people recommended it
  • 10 different months
  • 2 strong recommendations
  • first 2010, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “Highly worth a watch.”

    Pay versus performance beyond menial labor.

    MrDunham, 2011-01 · Strong recommendation · in “Inequality in Equalland”

  2. “To see why it matters, go watch”

    Autonomy, mastery, purpose; spot on about motivation.

    btilly, 2014-03 · Strong recommendation · in “Why good managers are so rare”

  3. “Really good for employers.”

    Daniel Pink on workplace motivation, good for employers.

    dreadlabs, 2010-06 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: What's your favorite TED Talk?”

  4. “the "Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us" video is a great rebuttal of this idea.”

    Rebuttal of the idea using Drive.

    hasenj, 2010-09 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: What's the big deal with startups anyways...”

  5. “actually very well summarised here”

    Short, well-done summary of Pink's Drive.

    sgentle, 2011-06 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: No intrinisic motivation to build stuff”

  6. “Dan Pink gave a good 10-minute talk about this sort of thing”

    Pink's 10-minute talk on autonomy-based leadership.

    szany, 2011-07 · Recommendation · in “When you're in a team that I lead, there are 3 things that I'd like to ask you”

  7. “Passion can be driven by incentives outside of salary.”

    Passion can come from incentives beyond salary.

    tayip9, 2011-07 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Is passion a fair thing to ask for from an employee?”

  8. “I recommend watching this [1] 10m video out about what drives us to understand this a little more.”

    10 minute video on what drives people.

    danberger, 2011-12 · Recommendation · in “Bingo Card Creator (etc) Year In Review 2011”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: dan pink, autonomy mastery purpose, management, incentives, rsa animate

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