This book is a quick read with an important message. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink has been a hot book this year. The core message is that carrot and stick approach to motivation is not only ineffective, but fails for knowledge workers. Using bonuses and performance metrics are [...]
Posts Tagged ‘ineedcoffee’
Internal Renovations on INeedCoffee
With over 11 years of content, not every article on INeedCoffee is good. In fact, there are a handful of articles that are terrible. Some are outdated. Many need to be edited and most could benefit with higher quality photos. Fixing it all is going to be a lot of work. Instead of changing the [...]
MAS at Starbucks?
Oh no he didn’t! The full story is at INeedCoffee.
That Time I Got a Cease and Desist From Starbucks
This post has been moved from Coffee Hero. It was originally written on July 25, 2009. With all the talk about the new Starbucks location opening up that will serve alcoholic drinks, I think this story is relevant. Way back in 2001, INeedCoffee published a collection of Espresso Martini recipes. One drink recipe used a [...]
The Lessons Learned From One Year of Coffee Hero
On March 24th, I announced to Coffee Hero readers that the site was going away for now. Although I touched on this in the post Rebooting Coffee Hero?, I’ve had more time to think about why the Coffee Hero site failed to be as successful as I had hoped. Here are the reasons I came [...]
