"Carrots & Sticks are so last Century. Drive says for 21st century work, we need to upgrade to autonomy, mastery and purpose." So says Daniel Pink as a summary of his best-selling book Drive that has popularized the astonishing research into the nature and power of intrinsically motivated behavior. How can a software development organization apply these principles to create a competitive advantage? Pink popularized the research of many behavioral scientists, particularly Edward L. Deci, which began with his landmark publication Intrinsic Motivation published in 1975. Pink uses the Open Source software movement as an example of the power of intrinsic motivation. In Open Source projects, we see people creating world class software, such as Linux, without any extrinsic motivation - no carrots (no financial incentives) and no sticks (fear of being fired). Something from within - something intrinsic - drives them to these creative heights. (If intrinsic motivation seems to...
Inspired by the ideas of W. Edward Demming, Taiichi Ohno, Tom DeMarco & Carol S. Dweck