Login
Welcome Guest! To enable all features please Login. New Registrations are disabled.

Notification

Icon
Error

Options
Go to last post Go to first unread
Pawche  
#1 Posted : Thursday, January 26, 2017 3:59:41 AM(UTC)
Pawche

Rank: Administration

Posts: 248

Thanks: 3 times
Was thanked: 50 time(s) in 44 post(s)
My wife checked out a book from our library for me on motivation. The book is by Dan Ariely, a professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University. I have read other books by him.
The title of this book is PAYOFF The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations. One of the interesting things I learned from this book is that people have a different motivation when they plan an activity than when they actually do the planned activity. This makes it hard to predict how to motivate others to complete a task. For example, going to the gym. When planning the main motivations are loosing weight and just getting/staying in shape. However, when at the gym the motivation changes to enjoying the task or satisfaction in completing the task.
Another interesting section deals with an experiment with shift workers - what motivates them when they come back after a few days off. A cash bonus was offered if first day production met the stated goal. While in the short-term a cash bonus to increase production worked better than nothing, over the course of their new shift, cash actually decreased production in the days after the target date.
I found the book quite interesting. Motivation is a complex issue and much of the thinking of the corporate world does not fit with data from experiments on motivation. The book is a quick read, a bit more than 100 small 7" x 5" pages.

Russell Malley
StockCentral Community Leader
thanks 1 user thanked Pawche for this useful post.
rk4353w on 4/13/2019(UTC)

Wanna join the discussion?! Login to your forum account. New Registrations are disabled.

rk4353w  
#2 Posted : Wednesday, February 12, 2020 12:22:32 AM(UTC)
rk4353w

Rank: Member

Posts: 14

Thanks: 7 times
Was thanked: 1 time(s) in 1 post(s)
A superb book in a similar vein is Robert Caldiniā€™s - Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion.
This was a Charlie Munger recommend some years back.
Users browsing this topic
Guest
Forum Jump  
You cannot post new topics in this forum.
You cannot reply to topics in this forum.
You cannot delete your posts in this forum.
You cannot edit your posts in this forum.
You cannot create polls in this forum.
You cannot vote in polls in this forum.

Powered by YAF.NET | YAF.NET © 2003-2024, Yet Another Forum.NET
This page was generated in 0.034 seconds.