Dan Pink: Assume Nothing, Expect Everything

Levitating frogs? Fed Ex days? There is no limit to the creative mind when given the chance to tap into its wisdoms. Dan Pink enlightens us on the booming trend of incorporating non-commissioned work into corporate culture. Pink points out that free-wheeling workdays like these have resulted in creations like Gmail and the Post-it note. Given the time, what else is waiting to be created? 

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Dan Pink

Dan Pink is the author of four provocative, bestselling books on the changing world of work. In his latest book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Pink shows us that 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 our world. Based on forty years of scientific data supporting his argument that people need intrinsic rather than external motivation, Pink’s work revolutionizes the way that we look at performance and motivation.

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