The problem is that Andrew doesn’t have his shirt on.

Incredibly this is the most common reasoning I’ve encountered over the last few years addressing the lack of commitment and / or motivation of resources within an organization. Let’s start calling them “people” instead of “resources” and we’ll begin to understand a little better the issue.

Another argument that is also used is:

Well, thats the way “Y Generation” is.

I have dozens of real examples which I won’t disclose die to respect purposes, but most occur / occurred in those organizations that are used to reward the “Performance” of the people.

This is a topic to chat for a long time, but it would be better to do with a coffee in between, much better in a lunch. Unfortunately we are not in any of these situations.

At this time there’s  a very interesting discussion on the list of Agile Argentina that reminded me this issue, in which Juan sent a video that clearly illustrates the issue.

I leave it here for anyone who wants to see it. I hope you find Daniel Pink’s approach about the issue as interesting as i actually do.

For now, it would be good for the new start-ups to begin promoting autonomy, mastery and purpose of each of its employees.

PS: here’s another talk Daniel pink gave in TED: