Jorge Alegre Blog

It was nice to watch this video. Daniel is a great communicator and as allways TED content has great quality. This event was at Oxford, would be great to attend to these events life.

Panda CEO some months ago was talking that stock options and so forth creates merchandisers instead of a good team of talented individuals. I had  my doubts at that time. Watching the video I agree on Dan terms. While working 100% on my start-up the three motivators mentioned in the video got me moving. These three are:

1. Autonomy: Desire to direct our lives.
2. Mastery: Desire to get better and better in something that matters.
3. Purpose: Participate in something larger than ourselves.

I think these three motivators can work for most people. I think that this will depend from person to person the level of motivation for each point. For overall will work for most people. People that value security and belonging would go with #3, active people will love #1, etc…

Working as consultant in software development for clients I found that people I talked about this they were not that much interested in better salary but rather that their opinion counts, they are listened and influence, etc…which would go to #3 becaouse if you are working on a project and have no level of influence then “you can no purpose”, right? becaouse you are not really participating.