Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don’t: Traditional rewards aren’t always as effective as we think. The traditional method of management does not always work in all the scenarios. Incentivised work will get you the desired results in only certain situations, in other cases it might as well get the poorest performance. So what motivates us at work? Is it the money? yes to some extent. These are some great talks that shatter the age old business models.

Here is an animated video, that hooks you onto the screen for 10mins 48secs. This video drives the point home with its pure genius of creativity and content.
The surprising truth about what motivates us.

The following video is the ted talk from Dan Pink, very entertaining and engaging.