The people at Cognitive Media are really quite brilliant. They take speeches from experts in a myriad of fields and then as they speak, an artist conceptualizes the points the speaker makes on a white board in real-time (well, artists white board is sped up, as drawing is not as fast as speaking).
Dan Pink’s talk on motivation illustrates some of the myths we have come to embrace about motivating and rewarding people. Money is definitely not everything. Unsurprisingly what counts is autonomy, mastery and purposefulness; throwing more money into the equation tends to give poorer, sometimes even disastrous results.
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August 12, 2010 at 7:41 am
Vern R. Kaine
Great video! Even more proof why we waste so many dollars on government workers’ and union-workers’ overinflated, unjustified pay. ;) haha
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August 15, 2010 at 11:56 am
Alan Scott
I watched this video a couple of times because I was trying to figure out the view point of the narrator. It is definitely interesting but, left out details. I would have liked to know exactly what cognitive tasks were done worse by higher pay . Also when the narrator went into the whole ‘you would think this was something left wing’ statement, I don’t think you can extrapolate that.
The study only dealt with rewards and not punishments . Also this study may or may not be valid for employees of organizations, but you cannot use it to invalidate the incentives and disincentives theory of taxation in the context of an economy. When the narrator talked about his economics instructor, I did not think that it applied to economics as opposed to purely employee productivity. While certainly related, they are not the same.
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