Quotes About Daniel Pink

Rewards do not undermine people's intrinsic motivation for dull tasks because there is little or no intrinsic motivation to be undermined.

I call time-outs like these "vigilance breaks"—brief pauses before high-stakes encounters to review instructions and guard against error.

Moral regrets make up the smallest of the four categories in the deep structure of regret, representing only about 10 percent of the total regrets.

Type I's like being recognized for their accomplishments—because recognition is a form of feedback. But for them, unlike for Type X's, recognition is not a goal in itself.

The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization BY PETER M. SENGE

Forty-eight hours without flow plunged people into a state eerily similar to a serious psychiatric disorder. The experiment suggests that flow, the deep sense of engagement that Motivation 3.0 calls for, isn't a nicety. It's a necessity. We need it to survive. It is the oxygen of the soul.