Daniel H. Pink

LINKS: Rob Cross’s research: What Creates Energy in Organizations? | Charged Up: Managing the Energy That Drives Innovation. Bob Sutton’s last 3 books: Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to Mor...

https://www.danpink.com/2016/03/pinkcast-4-advice-from-bob-sutton-do-people-leave-encounters-with-you-with-more-energy-or-less/

LINKS: The underlying research: The Pen is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Notetaking by Pam Mueller at Princeton and Daniel Oppenheimer at UCLA. Articles on the...

https://www.danpink.com/2016/03/pinkcast-3-why-you-should-take-notes-by-hand/

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https://www.danpink.com/2016/02/pinkcast-1-my-go-to-productivity-trick/

All of us could use some advice on how to manage our finances. But Steven D. Lockshin says we ought to heed a billboard-sized warning: Be careful out there. “he financial advice industry,” he...

https://www.danpink.com/2013/10/interview-with-steven-d-lockshin-author-of-get-wise-to-your-advisor/

Not everyone craves the proverbial key to the executive washroom, but nearly everyone wants to have influence in their workplace, have others think well of them, and attain success in a way that�...

https://www.danpink.com/2013/09/how-to-get-ahead-5-questions-for-joel-garfinkle/

Here’s the latest in our series of short videos based on Chapter 7 of To Sell is Human. The message of this one: Perhaps it’s time for you to rhyme. The post How to Pitch Better: The Rhymin...

https://www.danpink.com/2013/06/how-to-pitch-better-the-rhyming-pitch/

In the second short video based on Chapter 7 of To Sell is Human, wherein I reveal the six successors to the elevator pitch, we answer this urgent question: How do you craft an effective email su...

https://www.danpink.com/2013/06/how-to-pitch-better-the-email-pitch/

Today we begin a new series of short videos based on Chapter 7 of To Sell is Human, wherein I reveal the 6 successors to the elevator pitch. Up first is The Question Pitch, which shows when you s...

https://www.danpink.com/2013/05/how-to-pitch-better-the-question-pitch/

Just in time for graduation season, Johnny Bunko is here to remind you of the 6 essential lessons of any satisfying, productive career: 1. There is no plan. Make decisions for fundamental, not ...

https://www.danpink.com/2013/05/the-6-essential-lessons-of-a-satisfying-productive-career/

Below is a fantastic TED Talk from Dan Ariely on why people work hard, when they’re willing to make extreme efforts, and how easy it is to crush their motivation. Among the insights and provoca...

https://www.danpink.com/2013/05/dan-arielys-revised-model-of-labor/

The annotated map below has been lighting up the the social mediasphere in the last couple days — and for good reason. It forces those of us outside the circle (I’m looking at you, America) t...

https://www.danpink.com/2013/05/are-you-inside-the-circle-or-outside/

On the cover of Focus: Use Different Ways of Seeing the World for Success and Influence are a red light and a green light. The symbols nicely capture the central idea in this fascinating book (Bu...

https://www.danpink.com/2013/04/is-your-focus-prevention-or-promotion-5-questions-for-halvorson-higgins/

Office Hours — our super-cool, call-in, radio-ish program — has been on hiatus for a few months. But we’re coming back with a great show to kick off our 2013 season. On Friday April 12, 201...

https://www.danpink.com/2013/04/office-hours-is-back-and-its-sticky/

Every so often a book comes along that changes the way you see the world. Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success, which comes out today, is one of those books. In 305 insightful pages...

https://www.danpink.com/2013/04/why-givers-often-succeed-5-questions-for-adam-grant/

Phil Rosenthal has a great column in the Sunday Chicago Tribune arguing that one of the late Roger Ebert’s greatest legacies is as a businessman and pioneer of the “brand called you.”  You...

https://www.danpink.com/2013/04/8-business-lessons-from-roger-ebert/

There’s lots to dislike about the modern workplace. Dunderheaded managers. Snarls of bureaucracy. And all those endless meetings. But Ray Fisman and Tim Sullivan say all those threats to our sa...

https://www.danpink.com/2013/03/are-meetings-a-force-for-good-some-questions-for-the-authors-of-the-org/

Not sure how I missed this until now — but if you loved Alec Baldwin’s cameo in Glengarry Glen Ross (NSFW), which I write about in To Sell is Human (SFW), you’ll love this 4-minute Saturday...

https://www.danpink.com/2013/03/always-be-cobbling/

First we had IQ. Next came EQ. Now, Bruce Nussbaum introduces CQ — Creative Intelligence. In his new book Creative Intelligence: Harnessing the Power to Create, Connect, and Inspire (Amazon, BN...

https://www.danpink.com/2013/03/be-mindful-meaningful-and-masterly-3-questions-for-bruce-nussbaum/