An Interview with Dan Pink

During Dan Pink’s recent visit to BIF, we had a chance to sit down and talk one-on-one about his new book and some of the ideas that inspired Dan to dive deep into questions of human motivation and innovation. The interview was conducted by BIF’s college intern Elicia Welch.  As always, Dan was fair game for Elicia’s questions and offered some entertaining insights into his approach.

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Dan Pink

Dan Pink is the author of four provocative, bestselling books on the changing world of work. In his latest book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Pink shows us that the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world. Based on forty years of scientific data supporting his argument that people need intrinsic rather than external motivation, Pink’s work revolutionizes the way that we look at performance and motivation.

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