I read Drive by Daniel Pink (referenced in the article) and Punished by Rewards by Alfie Kohn. They both make very interesting cases again current thoughts and practices surrounding motivation, especially regarding how rewards (in any form) often have the exact opposite effect of their intention.

I wrote some more about this recently here [0]

[0] https://www.codementor.io/garethdwyer/enter-the-zone-fight-i...