Daniel H. Pink
Traditional carrot-and-stick incentives often undermine modern work. Better performance comes from supporting people’s desire to direct their own work, improve at it, and connect it to a larger purpose.
Traditional rewards often extinguish intrinsic motivation and diminish performance for creative or complex tasks.
True engagement requires autonomy over what you do, when you do it, who you do it with, and how you do it.
Mastery is the challenging but rewarding pursuit of continuous improvement in a specific domain.