by Teresa Amabile - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 May 2024
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What Small Wins Have You Had Recently?

18 Mar 2023
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Is AI the Future of Hollywood? How the Hype Squares with Reality

February 1985
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Motivation and Creativity: Effects of Motivational Orientation on Creative Writers

72 members of the college community who identified themselves as actively involved in creative writing participated in individual laboratory sessions, in which they were asked to write 2 brief poems, to investigate the hypothesis that intrinsic motivation is conducive... View Details

Keywords: Social Psychology; Creativity; Motivation and Incentives; Performance; Personal Characteristics; Situation or Environment

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01 Feb 1998
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Women at the Top

that when you are the first to enter a market, it's important to build continually on that first-mover advantage. In my field, investment banking, you can't coast, not even for a minute. You constantly have to come up with the next idea." Koehn's opening presentation... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young

20 May 2008
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Creativity and productivity

31 May 2008
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You can train yourself to be more creative in the way you tackle problems

13 Jul 2008
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Creativity can thrive, if you keep the e-mail in check

20 Oct 2024
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How to Step Confidently Into Your Life After Retirement

04 Sep 2024
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Four Developmental Tasks You—And Everyone Else—Will Face in Retirement

06 Jul 2020
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How Your Work Environment Influences Your Creativity

2020
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Consensual Assessment

By: B. A. Hennessey, J. S. Mueller and T. M. Amabile

Over time, the field of creativity research has seen a gradual shift away from an almost exclusive emphasis on the creative person towards a more balanced inquiry that centers both on individual difference issues and questions about the nature of creative products and... View Details

Keywords: Consensual Assessment Technique; Product Creativity; Creativity; Research

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January–February 2014
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IDEO's Culture of Helping

By: Teresa Amabile, Colin M. Fisher and Julianna Pillemer

Leaders can do few things more important than encouraging helping behavior within their organizations. In the highest-performing companies, it is a norm that colleagues support one another's efforts to do the best work they can. That has always been true for efficiency... View Details

Keywords: Management Style; Behavior; Attitudes; Organizational Culture; Relationships; Social and Collaborative Networks

01 Sep 2011
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Faculty Books

The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer (Harvard Business Review Press) The best managers... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

2010
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Multi-Rater Assessment of Creative Contributions to Team Projects in Organizations

By: Giovanni B. Moneta, Teresa M. Amabile, Elizabeth Schatzel and Steve J. Kramer

This study examined the convergent and construct validity of ratings of individual creative contributions in a team context. A sample of 201 employees and supervisors, working on 26 team projects, completed the NEO-Five Factor Inventory and rated themselves and their... View Details

Keywords: Creativity; Groups and Teams; Research; Performance Evaluation; Gender; Projects

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