The thing that stood out the most for me was Theory X and Theory Y on page seventy-four. Pink described Theory X when leaders dislike work and believe people must be coerce, controlled, directed, and threatened with punishment to get them to put forth their best effort. In theory Y is when leaders enjoy their job and believe that “creativity and ingenuity is widely distributed in the population, and that under the proper conditions, people will accept, and even seek responsibility.” The reason this was meaningful to me is because it reminded me of the first time we had class and we pointed out characteristics of our least favorite teacher and our favorite teacher. Theory X reminds me of my least favorite teacher especially because she would threaten us a lot and everything I did felt like I was force to do it. Theory Y reminds me of my favorite teacher because in her class I felt comfortable and I knew what she expected so I accepted my responsibilities without her forcing me to do them. Pink stated that in Theory Y, “the possibilities were vast- not simply for the individual’s potential, but for the company’s bottom line as well. With my favorite teacher I feel like is the school year I learned the most because I can recall various activities we did in class. As for my least favorite teacher I can‘t recall information learned, but only times she made me feel scare.
I too think I have a Type I behavior like Samantha. There was one statement about Type I behavior that describes me very well. The statement says that Type I behavior is devoted to becoming better and better at something that matters and I tend to bug people about it. People always tell me to let things go and that they don’t have to be perfect, but they have to be for me to be satisfied.
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