Chapter 4

Autonomy is different from independence. It means acting with choice, which means we can be both autonomous and happily interdependent with others.  A sense of autonomy has a powerful effect on individual performance and attitude.  Companies that offer autonomy usually outperform their competitors.  Could this method work in schools?  Barb you kind of mentioned this when you asked if giving students options will help Type I show up.  I believe it would work just like it does in the business model.  To encourage Type I behavior, and the high performance it enables, the first requirement is autonomy. People need autonomy over the 4 t’s; time, task, team, and technique.  Encouraging autonomy doesn’t mean discouraging accountability. People must be accountable for their work. Motivation 3.0 presumes that people want to be accountable and having control over their task, time, team and technique is a pathway to that destination.  Jacque you talk about how X’s are picked last for teams and what not because they are bad in groups.  I consider myself to be an X when it comes to most things, but my motivation to get things done and done the correct way makes me good in groups.  We do not have to want to do what we are doing to be good at it.  Can’t we do something the right way because we know it is the right thing to do and still be an X?