Assignment for the Week of May 31st

posted May 10, 2010 7:50 PM by C Porter

Read:  Drive Part Three

Blog: What tools in the Drive Toolkit most interested you? How would you use these tools to motivate those around you? To be personally motivated?

Portfolio Activity: Identify the key organizations you should participate in (or already are) and list in your portfolio. Each should have a brief, one sentence description and/or link to organization website.

Project Activity: Identify the resources needs for the change. Make list of resources that includes description, value to the project and approximate cost (this list will include people). Post to wiki.
Due: 6/7

The tools in the Drive Toolkit that interested me were not in the Drive Toolkit but taken from Pink’s A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future.  I read the latter after reading Drive and thought it had some excellent resources for motivating myself and others. The Toolkit’s ntrinsic motivation is important but still, we must ask ourselves WHY we seek change before we try to discern HOW.  To this end, I thought A Whole New Mind was an excellent resource.  According to Pink, Abundance, Asia, and Automation has decreased the need for L-directed thinkers (left brain knowledge workers who excel at standardized tests such as the PSAT, SAT, GMAT, LSAT and MCAT).  So the challenge for the future change makers is to harness our right brain creativity and become innovative designers, empathizers, and playmakers.  In the Conceptual Age jobs will require “care, humor, imagination, ingenuity, instinct, joyfulness, personal rapport, and social dexterity.”  Once we understand why we should be motivated for change how becomes the easy part.

Here’s a pretty harsh review I read about Pink’s Drive.  It’s good having an opposing viewpoint even if this author seems a bit too critical:

http://www.hplusmagazine.com/articles/art-entertainment/you%E2%80%99re-such-toolkit