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Remote Work, Open Source, and Motivation

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.

Tom Willmot

July 29, 2015
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  1. “The carrot and stick management tools from the mechanised jobs

    of the past do a poor job of motivating people to do creative work.”
  2. –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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  4. “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.”