Posts Tagged ‘Drive’

Oct 3
October 3, 2011 at 18:48

DAF and us.

DAF groupies

Seriously, you must be kidding. A whole company of testosterone ridden young men out on their own in a convoy of classic cars? A recipe for disaster I tell you, an accident waiting to happen.

Yet this was exactly what 3Dimerce decided to organize for the company outing that accompanied the presentation of the new medium term strategy. Balls of steel.

optocht

In retrospect, everything turned out fine. We had a hell of a fun day. We not only raced with DAFs, but also visited an ostrich farm (I like them better on my plate), climbed an old wind mill (very impressive craftmanship), and held a BBQ to top it off (ah, the ostrich again). Best of all, no one got hurt, and almost nothing got broken. I say we should up the ante for our outings to come a little. Something on a real race track perhaps?

red-menace

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Oct 1
October 1, 2010 at 11:20

Creating Magic – By Lee Cockerell

Creating MagicDon’t you have two round ears on top of your head and isn’t your girlfriend wearing a fancy red ‘n white dress? Don’t worry! Lee Cockerell gives advice on how to create magic, even without the ears…

As you may have seen in our ‘cool books’ category, we like to learn from the books we read and reflect our own vision on them. This book definitely fits in this category. However it does that not only because of the 10 common sense strategies Lee writes about, but also because Lee is the former Executive Vice President of Operations for the Walt Disney World® Resort in Orlando. (You may have noticed in the ‘our faces’ section of this website that I am a themepark addict.) After working for a few different hotel corporations, Lee joined Disney with the start of the Disneyland Paris project in 1990. I had heard of Lee before, not knowing he wrote a book about leadership. While listening to a themepark-podcast (That’s what we addicts do…), I heard an interview about his book. I ordered the Dutch version of the book right way (I would recomend reading the original English version by the way. Or at least, not the Dutch version because the translations might get ‘itchy’…).

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Jul 30
July 30, 2010 at 11:25

Drive – Daniel H. Pink

Drive; the surprising truth about what motivates usThe surprising truth on what motivates us!

Well, luckely for us at 3DIMERCE.com it’s not quite a surprise. We don’t believe in extrinsic motivation, but in the ability of each employee to grow and develop in which everybody realizes his or hers fullest potential. And that’s exactly what the terrific book is all about. Apparently a lot of companies still believe in giving high bonuses and other financial stimulants to motivate their managers and employees. Dan Pink proofs in Drive that this doesn’t work, it even brings out worst in most people. In the book there is an abundance of studies and tests that we conducted during this and last century, that give an insight in why extrinsic motivators makes us less creative, perform less, focus on short term and even provoke unethical behaviour.

In the early days of the industrial revolution and during the 20th century, the “carrots & sticks” approach was working well. Dan calls this motivation 2.0. Simple tasks that don’t require much creativity and initiative can be stimulated by external ‘if-then’ rewards. So straight-forward production work benefits from financial incentives to make people work harder.

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