Remote Work, Open Source, and Motivation

Our traditional understanding of motivation is broken. Thankfully the science is now clear. We’ll explore how a culture which embraces Open Source and remote work promotes the real drivers of motivation and ultimately leads to a happy, motivated team.

1. Remote Work, Open Source, & Motivation
2. Distributed is just about hiring
3. 28 HUMANS / REMOTE / AGENCY & PRODUCTS
7. Distributed is about motivation
8. “Do it”
9. “The carrot and stick management tools from the mechanised jobs of the past do a poor job of motivating people to do creative work.”
10. Science!
11. Sam Glucksberg 1962
12. Sam Glucksberg 1962
13. WAT!
14. • Large Reward • Medium Reward • Small Reward
15. –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”
16. ?
17. “SCIENCE! HALP!”
18. Autonomy Purpose Mastery
19. –WordPress “Democratise Publishing”
20. –WordPress “Ship code to 24% of the Web”
21. –WordPress ~500 WordCamps worldwide
22. Do work you care about, in a way which suits you, and do it well
23. Autonomy
24. Anywhere
25. Anytime
26. Anyway
27. ROWE
28. “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.”
29. Thanks!
30. https://europe.wordcamp.org/2015/speaker/tom-willmot/ @tomwillmot
31. hmn.md/is/hiring