More Important Than Money: What Motivates Us
This is a captivating video of a talk by Dan Pink on what motivates our work. The pacing and myriad of examples he presents is really fascinating, and pretty eye-opening. Money, it turns out, isn’t as much of a motivator as we thought. This is a great video, and absolutely worth the ten minutes it’ll take to watch.
Interesting thing: this video wasn’t animated by Pink, but it looks like it was done by RSA (who animated a talk by Pink). I’m not all that familiar with the organization, but they’ve got a series of videos in this same style (animations of talks done by others).
In watching this video, I’m very much reminded very much of an excerpt I saw, from a talk by Guy Kawasaki (who worked as an evangelist at Apple in the 1980’s), encouraging people to “make meaning, not money.”
This is the ted talk that I’m presenting next wednesday at work, what a coincidence. :)
Liz (May 28, 2010 at 8:40 am)Awesome! I didn’t realize he had also done a TED talk.
avoision (May 28, 2010 at 9:39 am)I saw that Pink video just the other day and loved it too! Hadn’t seen the Kawasaki video — thanks for the link.
Lynn Stevens (May 30, 2010 at 12:06 pm)Wow, the animated video was captivating, the images made me pay attention, whereas in the TED video he yells around like a jerk…
Louis (May 31, 2010 at 7:31 pm)