Dan Pink gives the following presentation at TED this past July. He starts off by making a case supported by scientific studies, that rewards and incentives used by managers no longer work. He goes on to name three elements that compromise a new operating system necessary for successful, Twenty First century businesses. Of the three, he concentrates on Autonomy - the urge to self-direct our lives. Dan then explains how management works in one setting and how it isn't working in another setting - the one where we need to use our brains at work.
I believe way back, when God was but a blur in His lab, slinging beakers atop His Bunsen Burner and concocting people who would one day be most excellent managers, I was not one of them. Actually I ended up in the experimental batch: what happens to the minds of people who were placed in management positions, for a very, very long time, who were not wired to be managers. Results are not conclusive, but now that He has removed me from the lab's hamster wheel and placed me in the decompression chamber, we should all know soon.
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