Daniel Pink (Blog 3)

Daniel Pink is very exuberant and excited throughout his talk, which shows that he is very passionate about his topic. The point to his talk seems to be that incentives lead to poor performance when the task requires deep, out of the box thinking. He also emphasizes that "there's a mismatch what science knows and what business does." I like the point he makes when he says that being offered a reward narrows one's focus. The solutions he presents to this problem are very interesting in that many people would not expect to work, but they do. I think it actually does make sense that these solutions work. Eliminating an incentive will eliminate workers who only try in order to gain the rewards, and inspire people to do the work for other reasons (because they love it, because they want to beat their personal best, because they want to be able to stay on the same level as their peers). I can, however, see the other side of the issue, and how taking away rewards would have a negative effect on work. However, I believe in jobs that require creativity, taking away incentives works because it really takes one's mind off of just getting the reward, and opens your focus up to what you need to accomplish.