Daniel H. Pink Quotes About Creativity

Quotes about: Creativity

• If you want people to perform better, you reward them, right? Bonuses, commissions, their own reality show. Incentivize them. [...] But that's not happening here. You've got an incentive designed to sharpen thinking and accelerate creativity, and it does just the opposite. It dulls thinking and blocks creativity.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Motivation, Block, Inspiration

  "The puzzle of motivation". TED Talks, www.ted.com. July 2009.

• The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who could craft contracts, MBAs who could crunch numbers. But the keys to the kingdom are changing hands.The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind-creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers.These people-artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big picture thinkers-will now reap society's richest rewards and share its greatest joys.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Education, Creativity, Artist

  Daniel H. Pink (2006). “A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future”, p.14, Penguin

• Abstract thinking leads to greater creativity... But in our businesses and our lives, we often do the opposite. We intensify our focus rather than widen our view.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Creativity, Thinking, Views

• The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic 'right-brain' thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Creativity, Artist, Creative

  "A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future". Book by Daniel H. Pink, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2006.

• For artists, scientists, inventors, schoolchildren, and the rest of us, intrinsic motivation-the drive to do something because it is interesting, challenging, and absorbing-is essential for high levels of creativity.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Motivation, Creativity, Artist

  Daniel H. Pink (2011). “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, p.45, Penguin

• Intrinsic motivation is conducive to creativity; controlling extrinsic motivation is detrimental to creativity.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Motivation, Creativity, Intrinsic Motivation

  Daniel H. Pink (2011). “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, p.29, Penguin

• Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Crush, Money, Motivation

• The misuse of extrinsic rewards, so common in business, impedes creativity, stifles personal satisfaction and turns play into work.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Creativity, Play, Rewards

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