Without Rewards and Punishment, How to Motivate?
Pink’s answer is that Motivation 3.0 doesn’t motivate anyone directly; it merely creates an environment conducive to intrinsic motivation. He identifies three qualities that form the axes of internal motivation: autonomy, mastery, and purpose. To adopt Motivation 3.0, organizations (particularly businesses, which are Pink’s primary focus) must fully embrace these values. Pink’s concepts require a radical shift in the structure of management and in how we think about corporate governance, away from managing, toward leading and supporting. In fact, Pink advocates throwing the word “management” into the linguistic junkyard. This may be a difficult transition for many companies, which likely will hesitate to relinquish control over their employees. But Pink claims that it is absolutely necessary, and describes several revolutionary workplaces that have discovered the effectiveness of one or more of his components. One of these new strategies is the Results-Only Work Environment, which Pink
