Who:
Daniel H. Pink, Lecturer on Economic Transformation and the New Workplace and Best-Selling Author of Free Agent Nation and A Whole New Mind. He’ll make a presentation based on his new book. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (Riverhead Books, 2009). The session will adjourn at 6:15.
Dan is a friend of NewPath Network and his book "Free Agent Nation" motivated the beginning of our group. Written 10 years ago, the dream of independent free agents is still on the minds of many small business owners.
5:00 sharp - 6:15pm, Monday,
April 5, Fleck Atrium (ground floor), Rotman School of Management, University of
Toronto, 105 St. George Street, Toronto
What: Forget
everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people--at work, at
school, at home. It's wrong. As Pink explains in his new and paradigm-shattering
book, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world is the
deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and
to do better by ourselves and our world. Drawing on four decades of scientific
research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science
knows and what business does--and how that affects every aspect of our lives. He
demonstrates that while the old-fashioned carrot-and-stick approach worked
successfully in the 20th century, it's precisely the wrong way to
motivate people for today's challenges. In Drive, he reveals the three
elements of true motivation: autonomy - the desire to direct our own lives;
mastery - the urge to get better
and better at something that matters; and purpose - the yearning to do what we do
in the service of something larger than ourselves Along the way, he takes us to
companies that are enlisting new approaches to motivation and introduces us to
the scientists and entrepreneurs who are pointing a bold way forward.
Drive is bursting with big ideas--the rare book that will change how you
think and transform how you live.
TO REGISTER FOR THE
SESSION: The fee to attend on April 5 is $99
per person plus GST. The fee for alumni of Rotman or UofT is $79 per person plus
GST. The fees include the session and 1 copy of Drive. You may wish to bring clients or
colleagues. If you have not already
registered, please do so by noon on April 5 at www.rotman.utoronto.ca/events
The speaker series is sponsored by our
Desautels Centre for Integrative Thinking.
