“The carrot and stick management tools from the
mechanised jobs of the past do a poor job of
motivating people to do creative work.”
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Science!
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Sam Glucksberg 1962
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Sam Glucksberg 1962
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WAT!
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• Large Reward
• Medium Reward
• Small Reward
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–D. Ariely, U. Gneezy, G. Lowenstein, & N. Mazar. 2005
“In 8 of the 9 tasks we examined across the 3
experiments, higher incentives lead to worse
performance”
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“SCIENCE! HALP!”
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Autonomy
Purpose Mastery
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–WordPress
“Democratise Publishing”
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–WordPress
“Ship code to 24% of the Web”
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–WordPress
~500 WordCamps worldwide
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Do work you care about, in a way which suits
you, and do it well
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Autonomy
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Anywhere
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Anytime
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Anyway
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ROWE
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“A culture which fully embraces the distributed
model and the values we inherit from Open
Source will be more productive, more engaged
and ultimately happier.”