The game changer how to use the science of motivation with the power of game design to shift behaviour, shape culture and make clever happen
Use the science of motivation with the power of game design to unlock motivation and drive progress in your organisation. There are two conventional ways to approach motivation: set goals and try to change attitudes and beliefs (which takes a lot of personalised effort); or develop incentives and...
| Other Authors: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Published: |
Milton, Queensland :
Wiley
2014.
|
| Edition: | 1st edition |
| Subjects: | |
| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627913706719 |
Table of Contents:
- The Game Changer; Contents; About the author; Acknowledgements; The big question: How do you motivate people to do great work?; How to use this book; Part I The motivation savvy-up; 1 A most alluring motivational folklore; Stuff gets warped; Positive thinking and the danger of belief; Getting strategic with optimism; This is where we need to suspend disbelief; Overcoming the cult of success; The secret to secrets (and other things you don't know); Declaring war on 'just because'; The allure of quick fixes; Motivation - strategy and design; Tactics are a bit like cooking ingredients
- The Law of Unintended ConsequencesRelentless iteration; The irony of expertise, and this book; Ignorance is bliss; Don't take things too seriously; 2 An imperative for change; Everybody loves change, right?; Change is hard; If it's not urgent, it's not important; Change is not a single-player game; A vision needs to be captured; The rationale for change needs to be communicated; Vision? Check. Communication? Check. Now what?; A paradox for leaders; The Valve example; Balancing short-term and long-term goals; Dealing with perceived hierarchy in a flat structure
- Productivity without management?The world is becoming flat; It's robots vs ninjas; Robot work is getting automated and outsourced; Samurai; Rogues; Ninjas; 3 And yet . . . the big motivation gap; Constructive Discontent; But what happens if you've got no gap?; From automation to aspiration; Bridging the gap; Before we get carried away, a note on intrinsic and extrinsic motivation; The classic (internal) motivational approach; The conventional (extrinsic) management approach; Herzberg's hygiene factors; By Pavlov's salivating dogs!; Skinner's five schedules of reinforcement
- It all comes back to the gapPart II Getting your game on; 4 The root of all game-changing hacks; The Progress Principle; Conservation of effort; When our sense of progress is low, motivation suffers; Our behaviour will default to the activities that provide the richest sense of progress; A clear sense of progress; Progress exists in a container; The LinkedIn progress bar; A most incorrect yet utterly useful way to view motivation; Remove the friction; Visibility before accountability; Traits vs behaviours; Keeping it real; 5 Get your head into the game; The myths that surround games
- Games are a global phenomenonGames are not just about winning; Games are simply work that's well designed; The trouble with the word 'game'; Games are behavioural manipulation; The anatomy of a game; Goals; Rules; Feedback; Goals, rules, feedback - the ultimate diagnostic; Challenge, stimulation, reward - the three keys to unlocking engagement; Avoid getting blunt, bored or burned; The uncanny parallels; 6 A model game changer; A theory of fun; Hard work cannot be infinite; The quantified self; A vision of play and possibility; Finite games; Infinite games; Play? You can't be serious!
- The game changer model
