management

A book about motivation not to be missed by business owners and those who want to understand people and how they work—the book itself is a treatise against traditional motivating factors in workplaces. It does an excellent job of explaining how and why short-term and monetary rewards can be detrimental to innovation and business growth while encouraging new systems and concepts of work. By giving employees 1) autonomy, 2) mastery, and 3) purpose, managers can create the kind of workplace that people fight for.

Pink defines all motivating factors as either intrinsic or extrinsic. His goal of

The Prince - by Machiavelli

Few books are still read 500 years after first being published.  It is even more unique if such a book is still on the required reading list at schools (like MBA graduate level schools).  The book I am talking about is The Prince by Machiavelli.  Despite its age and brevity, the book is still very relevant and influential.  A beginning course of management theory and political science wouldn’t be complete without commenting on his writing.

Machiavelli discusses how a ruler, or Prince, could accomplish conquest and rule his subjects, and rule in the face of both