{"id":527,"date":"2009-08-28T11:00:14","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/?p=527"},"modified":"2009-08-28T11:00:14","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T11:00:14","slug":"dan-pink-on-the-surprising-science-of-motivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/08\/28\/dan-pink-on-the-surprising-science-of-motivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\n<object width=\"446\" height=\"326\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/embed\/DanielPink_2009G-embed_high.flv&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/DanielPink-2009G.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=432&#038;vh=240&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=618\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\" pluginspace=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" bgColor=\"#ffffff\" width=\"446\" height=\"326\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/embed\/DanielPink_2009G-embed_high.flv&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/DanielPink-2009G.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=432&#038;vh=240&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=618\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nCareer analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don&#8217;t: Traditional rewards aren&#8217;t always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories &#8212; and maybe, a way forward.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A very useful and thought provoking talk, Dan does well in describing the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and if nothing else it should force you pause and reflect for a moment on what actually motivates you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don&#8217;t: Traditional rewards aren&#8217;t always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories &#8212; and maybe, a way forward. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/08\/28\/dan-pink-on-the-surprising-science-of-motivation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[382,318],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-personal","tag-ted-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}