Our Motivations - Dan Pink - Inventables on Friday

Every Friday at Inventables is a free for all. Employees do whatever they want to do. Whatever they think is most important. Ask yourself, is this Crazy? or Obvious? Dan Pink gave an interesting TED Talk about the surprising science of motivation. The summary is that through a number of social psychology experiments he has boiled down what motivates a worker taking on tasks where there is more than one answer to three things. Autonomy - Mastery - Purpose At Inventables his findings were not so surprising. We haven't used those 3 words before but we've set up our company to benefit from this kind of approach for many years. In 2002 when we were just starting out and had very little money we established an $1200 exploration budget for every employee . The only rule surrounding the budget was the money was earmarked for exploration. There were no approvals required, no expectations of ROI, no timeframes. Each employee was given that money, trust, and autonomy to go e