Description www.ted.com Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories -- and maybe, a way forward.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at www.ted.com Follow us on Twitter www.twitter.com Checkout our Facebook page for TED exclusives www.facebook.comDaniel Pink, tedtalks, TED, Dan Pink, motivation, incentive, motivation technique, inspiration, reward, science, career, bonus, creativity, job, work, motivator, problem, American, performance, incentivize, human motivation, science of motivation, business, rat race, how to motivate employees, extrinsic, intrinsic, carrot, stick, carrot and the stick, types of rewards, concentration, focus, motivational speeches, white collar, work ethic, rules, if then rewards, performance incentiveDaniel Pink on the surprising science of motivationhttp://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/aqi_Mw1dVl02011-01-14T15:44:51.000Z2012-04-07T03:42:01.000ZWhat motivates and inspires peoploe to be creativeThree points of view on why people do the things they do. An interesting analogy of personal incentive from three different perspectives. Daniel Pink's presentation on motivating people in business. www.youtube.com The "zeitgeist - Addendum" movie about the resource based economy. www.youtube.com The "Revolution OS", a documentary about the "free" Linux computer operating system. www.youtube.com All have a basic theme. People perform best when they have the freedom to chose what they want to do and when they want to do it.rawjvhhttp://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/rawjvhEducationThree points of view on why people do the things they do. An interesting analogy of personal incentive from three different perspectives. Daniel Pink's presentation on motivating people in business. www.youtube.com The "zeitgeist - Addendum" movie about the resource based economy. www.youtube.com The "Revolution OS", a documentary about the "free" Linux computer operating system. www.youtube.com All have a basic theme. People perform best when they have the freedom to chose what they want to do and when they want to do it.