Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us Daniel H. Pink | Book Club

Suggested by: Extra
Pages to read: 226
ISBN: 9781594484803 (Originally listed edition & Edition Eugene is using)

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While reading the book, consider the below questions:
•What is the raison d’etre of the book? For what purpose did the author write the book? Why do people read this book?
•What are some limitations of the book?
•To whom would you suggest this book?
•What are biological drives? How do biological drives effect motivation?
•What is the difference between extrinsic incentives and intrinsic incentives?
•What is intrinsic motivation?
•What happened during the 1940s Harlow experiments?
•What happened during the 1960s Deci experiments?
•What is Maslow’s Hierarchy?
•What is flow?
•How does economics see human economic behavior?
•What are open source projects?
•How do open source projects complete with for profit projects?
•What is the Sawyer effect?
•What happens to children when they are extrinsically rewarded for learning?
•What is the Candle Problem experiment?
•What happened to blood donations when given a monetary paying for the blood donations?
•How does goal setting effect motivation?
•How does goal setting effect ethics?
•What happened at the day-care center when punishing parents for picking up their kids late?
•How are extrinsic rewards like an addition?
•What are the flaws of extrinsic reward and punishment?
•When do extrinsic rewards work?
•What are alternative motivators for algorithmic tasks?
•What is self-determination theory (SDT)?
•Who are Type I and Type X?
•Who are Type A and Type B?
•What do leaders think of those who work for their organizations?
•What are ROWEs?
•How can organizations give more autonomy to their workforce? What effect does autonomy have on the workforce?
•How do lawyers operate under billable hours?
•How do self-appraisals work?

Your questions are important and will take priority. If you have questions about the book's content or related ideas, either let me know what your questions are or raise them during the discussion.