Comments on: Dan Pink at TEDGlobal 2009: Running notes from Session 12

By: Dan Pink at TEDGlobal 2009: Running notes from Session 12 « What we want

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By: How to build a fast-moving webteam « Hurtigruten Web team Blog

How to build a fast-moving webteam « Hurtigruten Web team Blog — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:52:10 +0000

[...] freedom to choose when, where, with who and how work is performed is the key to success. A recent presentation by Dan Pink supported the fact that autonomy is a critical factor, highlighting Google’s 20 [...]

By: Mehdi Maghsoodnia

Mehdi Maghsoodnia — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 06:30:48 +0000

great talk. I totally agree. My biggest success in management has been when I leave the team alone and give them a purpose.

By: David Yorka

David Yorka — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Outstanding offering as usual. TED is on my dream destination list –until then I continue to enjoy the blog/vlog/pod/post bonanza of bright lights!
(please edit my comment –I believe there is a type-o in paragraph four, end of first line.)

By: Nancy Williams

Nancy Williams — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Dan, what you are talking about is something Maria Montessori saw when she began observing human behaviour in children. She found that the reward/punishment quickly shifted the source for action from one based on what the pure self has to offer to one based on being judged and evaluated. She saw that as soon as rewards were offered frustration, fear, disinterest, and sometimes even misbehavior replaced the intrigue and concentration that accompanied doing something out of interest and collaboration.

By: Nancy Williams

Nancy Williams — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I was watching a reality show: Biggest Loser, and while I was inspired to do something about my own weight issue, I was turned off by the competition. I realized I was seeing a perfect example of the widespread dis-empowering practices entrenched in our societies. I got the idea to Montessori-ize the reality show. Wouldn’t it be cool to have a show that was based on empowerment. So, (taking Biggest Loser as example) the purpose of the show would be to have experts and peers empower participants such that they took off as much weight as they possibly could. Their best effort would rely on the quality of empowerment. Members of the empowerment team would have to confront their own tendencies to manipulate, enable and figure out what empowerment actually is. There is no winner/loser, there is only the beauty of bringing excellence to being in relationship with others. I would so love to see that reality show. Thanks for the inspiration.

By: Cantona Pop

Cantona Pop — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Their best effort would rely on the quality of empowerment. Members of the empowerment team would have to confront their own tendencies to manipulate, enable and figure out what empowerment actually is. There is no winner/loser, there is only the beauty of bringing excellence to being in relationship with others. I would so love to see that reality show. CantonaX

By: Marco Armani

Marco Armani — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Beautifully put, and very well presented. Makes me think back about old organizations I worked for and how they ran their business, and how different it is from what I’m experiencing now. Dan, thanks for so perfectly putting this idea into words and for tying in the science behind it so well.

By: Toogo Telework

Toogo Telework — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

As usual, my horizons have been stretched by a Ted talk. I was already a strong advocate of work autonomy as applied to location and schedule (i.e. various telework scenarios), but now I have some borrowed science to back up the argument my heart made, and I can envision new potential applications.

By: Michael J. Trout

Michael J. Trout — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

His ideas need to not only applies to business but to education. We will make sure these ideas and concepts are incorporated in the eSingularity platform EDUIT is looking to build for an educational solution for Asia.