Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

CREATE YOUR OWN MOTIVATIONAL POSTER

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Drive Dan Pink

CREATE YOUR OWN MOTIVATIONAL POSTER
Office posters that try to motivate us have a grim reputation. As one wag put it, For the last two decades, motivational posters have inflicted unimaginable suffering on the workplaces of the world But who knows Perhaps the first one was a thing of beauty. Maybe those cave drawings in
Lascaux, France, were some Paleolithic motivational speaker’s way of saying, If you know where you’re going, you’ll never take a wrong turn Now you’ve got a chance to fightback (or perhaps to reclaim that ancient legacy. Thanks to a number of websites, you can create your own motivational posters—and you no longer have to settle for photos of kittens climbing out of baskets. You can be as serious or silly with this exercise as you like.
Motivation is deeply personal and only you know what words or images will resonate with you.
Try any of these sites:

Despair Inc (
http://diy.despair.com/motivator.php
)
Big Huge Labs (
http://bighugelabs.com/motivator.php
)
Automotivator (
http://wigflip.com/automotivator/
)
To offer you some, er, motivation, here are two posters I created myself:

Type I for Organizations Nine Ways to Improve Your Company, Office, or Group
Whether you’re the CEO or the new intern, you can help create engaging, productive workplaces that foster Type I behavior. Here are nine ways
to begin pulling your organization out of the past and into the brighter world of Motivation 3.0.
TRY “20 PERCENT TIME WITH TRAINING WHEELS
You’ve read about the wonders of “20 percent time”—where organizations encourage employees to spend one-fifth of their hours working on any project they want. And if you’ve ever used Gmail or read Google News, you’ve benefited from the results. But for all the virtues of this Type I innovation, putting such a policy in place can seem daunting. How much will it cost What if it doesn’t work If you’re feeling skittish, here’s an idea Go with a more modest version percent time . . . with training wheels. Start with, say, 10 percent time. That’s just one afternoon of a five-day workweek. (Who among us hasn’t wasted that amount of time at work anyway) And instead of committing to it forever, try it for six months. By creating this island of autonomy, you’ll help people act on their great ideas and convert their downtime into more productive time. And who knows Someone in your operation just might invent the next Post-it note.

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