.In 2009, the now famous author, Dan Pink shared a disruptive concept in his book, “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”. This concept focuses on empowering employees to expand their capabilities by focusing on their intrinsic motivation, the desire to do things because they matter, because they’re interesting, and because they are part of something important. This concept argues that motivation, as well as individual performance are based on 3 pillars:
- Autonomy: The urge to direct our own lives
- Mastery: The continuous desire to get better at something that actually matters
- Purpose: The yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves
These simple words are what inspired the birth of PaperCut’s first global hackathon entitled: Constructival (Construct + Festival. It sounds like a name out of Transformers doesn’t it?) last 17th to 18th of November across our offices in 3 time zones.
We committed to challenge ourselves on these 2 days to set time away from the day to day, to focus and work on anything we want, do it the way we want, and with whomever we want. We just had to be able to showcase and pitch our creations at the end of the two days.
