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If people are worried, if they're fearful, if they feel a sense of grievance or that they're not being treated properly or that they're not being paid fairly, what you're going to have is you're going to have people doing the minimum amount of work necessary to not get fired, and not a peppercorn more.

~Dan Pink

Topics: Amount Being Doing Fairly Fearful Feel Fired Get Going Grievance Minimum More Necessary Paid People Properly Sense Treated Work Worried You

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I think there are moral obligations, and I think there are economic transactions. So I think that chores are good; I think that allowances are good. I think combining them is bad.

~Dan Pink

Topics: Bad Chores Combining Economic Good Moral Obligations Them Think Transactions I Think

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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.

~Dan Pink

Topics: Actual Actually Almost Better Between Cash Correlation Enter Get How How Many Times Idea Jobs Likely Look Many More Performance Promoted Register Result Rings Sales Salespeople Times You Zero

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In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough. What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking.

~Dan Pink

Topics: Ability Artistry Associated Brain Characteristics Empathy Enough Faculties Hemisphere Important Kind Left Linear Many Matter Most Now Professions Right Side Still Thinking Those Used Were

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I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture.

~Dan Pink

Topics: Chart Draw Extremely Happen Instinct Picture Rather Than

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My generation's parents told their children, 'Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class.' But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that's hard to outsource, hard to automate.

~Dan Pink

Topics: Accountant Become Being Children Class Engineer Generation Give Hard Jobs Lawyer Make Middle Middle Class Now Order Overseas Parents Sent Solid Today Will Work You

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I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.

~Dan Pink

Topics: Books Cause Get Greater Imprint Leave Living Modest People Satisfaction Than Themselves Think Trying Want Way Writing I Think

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Health care is a design problem. Dependence on foreign oil is a design problem. To some extent, poverty is a design problem. We need design thinkers to solve those problems, and most people who are in positions of political power are not design thinkers, to put it mildly.

~Dan Pink

Topics: Care Dependence Design Extent Foreign Foreign Oil Health Health Care Most Need Oil People Political Political Power Positions Poverty Power Problem Problems Put Solve Some Thinkers Those Who

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The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.

~Dan Pink

Topics: Economist Me People Say Says They Say Watch

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If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.

~Dan Pink

Topics: Believe Better Complex Convey Form Ideas Important Myself Narrative Really Representation Then Toward Visual Want Ways World

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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