How do we create a tipping point for interest in Motivation 3.0? What if we could create an open-source project of people willing to teach and help each other about how we can have meaningful, fulfilling, fun, and nurturing work lives that result in more profitable and sustainable companies? What would that look like? How would it work? Has this problem been solved in another field?

Spreading new ideas takes time. We don’t like change - we don’t like changing the status quo. Most people don’t believe that their work can change meaningfully and are resigned to dredging along day by day. Motivation 3.0 is a complicated subject that encompasses multiple fields of study. I’ve been studying it for nine months and still have difficulty explaining it in a few sentences.

We live in an exciting time. We can communicate with people worldwide via text, audio, and video quickly and richly - more so now than at any other time in history. Given what’s happened and is happening with the global economy, we’re desperate to find solutions that make us open to suggestions we might not ordinarily consider. We know that the power of crowds and communities, online and in real life, is beyond imagining. Look at Wikipedia and Mozilla.

Companies like: Semco, Best Buy, Google, W.L. Gore, Zappos, Meddius, Atlassian and TOMS have started to fill the gap between what business does and what science knows. We’re seeing the emergence of corporate structures that are purpose-based. Profit is a benefit of the work they do, not the reason they exist. One of these structures is the B Corp. There are 315 certified B Corps. They include companies like Seventh Generation, In Ticketing, and King Arthur Flour.

I’m interested in collaborating with people to build learning, sharing, and helping community/crowd/tribe. Please contact me or post a response if this gets you excited. I don’t know if an open-source solution would work for helping people learn about and implement intrinsic motivation at work, at school, and at home, but I’m willing to try. “None of us is as smart as all of us.” —Ken Blanchard