Dan Pink is the author of five books about business, work, and management that have sold two million copies worldwide. Over 40 years of research backs up the idea that for most tasks you can’t incentivize people to perform better with money. This is one of the most robust findings from social science, but also the most ignored. There is a mismatch between what science knows and what business does. Today we are sharing his TED talk "The Puzzle of Motivation" which is considered one of the top 10 TED Talks of all time.
