Sublime

I focus on three sources of motivation: yourself (what you already want), a benefit or punishment you would receive by doing the action (the carrot and stick), and your context (e.g., all your friends are doing it). To help you visualize this, I created a little guy called the PAC Person. You’ll see him pop up again and again—it turns out that

Keep Your Team Motivated with Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose

the opportunity to achieve, affiliate, and influence,

You know what motivates people to engage deeply at work? A mission that’s bigger than you and me—a cause that gets them out of bed in the morning.

In his book, Drive, Daniel Pink described a framework for what drives people and what motivates them: Autonomy: The desire to direct our own lives Mastery: The urge to become better at something that matters Purpose: The yearning to contribute and be part of a cause greater and more enduring than ourselves

The three most powerful motives are curiosity, delight, and the desire to do something impressive. Sometimes they converge, and that combination is the most powerful of all.

Deci and Ryan suggested that the most powerful motivation of all is intrinsic motivation, which is ‘activated’ in the presence of three human needs: autonomy; competence; relatedness. Autonomy

ask: “How will we get others to behave differently (more competitively) than in the past? Are we sure that our people have the incentive to execute the designated activities? Are some important things not getting done because people perceive it is not in their interest to spend time on them?”

There are three main motivators: fear, desire and greed.