Ask HN: are there any good reads on how to motivate others?

How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie has been recommended to me several times

http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/06...

If you want to go more of the Psychology route:

Predictably Irrational (Dan Ariely, he has some TED talks as well) http://www.amazon.com/Predictably-Irrational-Revised-Expande...

Influence, the Science of Persuasion (Robert Cialdini) http://www.amazon.com/Influence-ebook/dp/B002BD2UUC

I like two books by Dan and Chip Heath called (1) Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard (good summary here : http://www.veganoutreach.org/advocacy/switch .html ) and (2) Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (good summary here: http://www.engineerguy.com/white-papers/made-to-stick.htm ).

Google has an interesting way of setting goals for their employees, which is part of group motivation:

http://startuplab.googleventures.com/public-workshops-2013-0...

I thought this was a great TED talk on the subject. How Great Leaders Insire Action. http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspi...

Search Inside Yourself

And the videos : http://www.siyli.org/take-the-course/siy-curriculum/

Good luck there...