In his best-selling book Drive, author Daniel H. Pink suggests that our methods of managing people in the 21st century need an “upgrade” to what he calls Motivation 3.0

It is generally accepted that performance can be driven by the right mix of incentives and rewards. Until recently, few questioned the use of incentives in encouraging behavior change and higher performance.

Those organizations that invest more in talent management...significantly outperform their competition across every measure of business - including earnings per share, gross profit margin and market capitalization per employee.