Team motivation - Daniel Pink on TED

We talk about motivation and motivating teams. This is worth watching - Daniel Pink on TED from 2009:

Life is not always what you think it is or works how we think it works. Pay attention to ROWE - results only work environment and the parts where he talks about autonomy, mastery & purpose versus the traditional carrot and stick.

Very surprising in some ways, but completely expected in other ways.

Multi-tasking - is it really this bad everywhere?

Multitasking is killing many of the projects I'm currently coaching. Team members literally have 3, 4 or even as many as 5 projects going at once. Teams are formed with multiple members, each on multiple projects. In almost every case, where there's heavy multi-tasking the teams choose to have their daily standup two times per week. Catch that - daily standup, only twice per week...