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  • 28 Aug 2018
  • News

Three Science-Backed Tricks To Improve Your Creativity

  • July 2012
  • Class Lecture

The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work

By: Teresa M. Amabile
What really makes people happy, motivated, productive, and creative at work? Professor Amabile's research, based on analyzing nearly 12,000 daily diaries of team members working on collaborative projects, reveals some surprising answers. Inner work life—a person's... View Details
Keywords: Employee Motivation; Fostering Performance; Improving Creativity; The Importance Of Progress; Employee Attitude; Enhancing Work Life; Improving Productivity; Inner Work Life; Motivation and Incentives; Working Conditions; Creativity; Performance Productivity; Attitudes; Employees
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  • 09 Dec 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity

better." As Chua has shown in previous research, awareness of our own cultural biases and assumptions can go a long way toward improving creativity in multicultural situations. He speculates that managers... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 24 May 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Improving Store Liquidation

Keywords: by Nathan Craig & Ananth Raman; Retail
  • 2019
  • Working Paper

The Creative Consulting Company

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Richard Nolan and David P. Norton
During the past 50 years, several consulting companies introduced important new ideas that extended management theory and improved management practice. This paper draws upon public sources and the authors’ personal experiences to describe how three management... View Details
Keywords: Management; Theory; Practice; Performance Improvement; Innovation and Management; Consulting Industry
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  • 06 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

How Small Wins Unleash Creativity

to recent research, the single most important factor is simply a sense of making progress on meaningful work. But creating an environment that fosters progress takes some careful effort. In their new book, The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How Managers Stifle Creativity

Creative thinking skills. Some people are naturally able to think outside the box. But we can all learn and improve our creative thinking skills. For example, there are... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 1989
  • Article

The Creative Environment Scales: The Work Environment Inventory

By: T. M. Amabile and N. Gryskiewicz
The Creative Environment Scales Work Environment Inventory (WEI) is a new paper-and-pencil instrument designed to assess stimulants and obstacles to creativity in the work environment. Unlike many instruments that are designed as comprehensive descriptions of the work... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Innovation and Invention; Working Conditions; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
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  • 26 Aug 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?

When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology; Information; Technology
  • 22 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

We tend to think of the moment of insight and creativity in sudden and shocking terms: the bathtub overflowing (Archimedes), the apple beaning off the head (Newton), the bolt of lightning shivering the key at the end of a kite (Franklin).... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Aug 30 2017
  • Interview

Break the Daily Rhythm to Foster Creative Insights

  • 23 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity

Not long ago, the senior management of a leading high-tech company was surprised to learn that research showed their R&D groups' creative performance to be in a prolonged slump following a corporate downsizing. The company's... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
  • April 2001
  • Article

Beyond Talent: John Irving and the Passionate Craft of Creativity

By: T. M. Amabile
Although laypeople and creativity theorists often make the assumption that individual creativity depends primarily on talent, there is considerable evidence that hard work and intrinsic motivation-which can be supported or undermined by the social environment-also play... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Performance; Performance Improvement; Motivation and Incentives; Personal Characteristics; Situation or Environment
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  • December 5, 2024
  • Article

A Consensus Definition of Creativity in Surgery: A Delphi Study Protocol

By: Alex Thabane, Tyler McKechnie, Phillip Staibano, Vikram Arora, Goran Calic, Jason W. Busse, Sameer Parpia and Mohit Bhandari
Introduction
Clear definitions are essential in science, particularly in the study of abstract phenomena like creativity. Due to its inherent complexity and domain-specific nature, the study of creativity has been complicated, as evidenced by the various... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Measurement and Metrics
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  • 21 Dec 2019
  • News

Three Myths About Creativity That Are Probably Holding You Back

  • 07 Jun 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Brand Recognition in TV Ads

estimated 5 million viewers, 50 to 60 percent of those viewers (2.5 to 3 million people) can be lost with usual zapping rates; as many as 1 million could be recaptured by using the pulsing strategy. "This isn't a constraint for the View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 20 Aug 2016
  • News

The Business of Improving Health Care Delivery

practices to bear on how we run hospitals. In America, we spend 17 percent of the GDP on health care, for some of the worst outcomes in the developed world. We’re in dramatic need of novel, creative ideas to View Details
  • 02 Apr 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Employees Out Sick? Inside One Company's Creative Approach to Staying Productive

more effective to encourage more handshake contracts between managers to share workers than to create a central system for replacing employees, the researchers found. Since different people on production lines perform different tasks, more options for borrowing and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Fashion
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

The Potential of Business to Improve Lives

type of collaboration and convenings that will be made possible by HBS’s new Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS). “BiGS can support research and bring visiting fellows to HBS to think creatively about the... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 14 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

expertise to improve the lives of children and youth of low-income families in the Washington, D.C., region. Morino is the author of Leap of Reason: Managing to Outcomes in an Era of Scarcity. Alnoor S. Ebrahim is an associate professor... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna