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  • 19 Jul 2013
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Helping You Help Me: The Role of Diagnostic (In)Congruence in the Helping Process within Organizations

Keywords: by Colin M. Fisher, Julianna Pillemer & Teresa M. Amabile
  • Research Summary

Helping at Work

By: Teresa M. Amabile

This research focuses on collaboration and helping in creative project teams. Colin Fisher (UCL), Julianna Pillemer (NYU Stern School), and I developed a multi-year research program examining help received and given, including successful and unsuccessful helping... View Details

Keywords: Collaboration; Helping; Creativity; Creative Industries
  • 14 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 14

  Publications January 2014 Harvard Business Review IDEO's Culture of Helping By: Amabile, Teresa, Colin M. Fisher, and Julianna View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

generation moving up the corporate ranks. Stimulate Creativity by Fueling Passion Authors:Teresa Amabile and Colin M. Fisher Publication:In The Blackwell Handbook of Principles... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 19

PapersNegotiation Processes As Sources of (and Solutions to) Interorganizational Conflict Authors:Elizabeth Long Lingo, Colin Fisher, and Kathleen L. McGinn Abstract We investigate how structural features of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Oct 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

capital sources. Deep Help in Complex Project Work: Guiding and Path-Clearing Across Difficult Terrain By: Fisher, Colin M., Julianna Pillemer, and Teresa View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Deep Help in Complex Project Work: Guiding and Path-Clearing Across Difficult Terrain

By: Colin M. Fisher, Julianna Pillemer and Teresa M. Amabile
How do teams working on complex projects get the help they need? Our qualitative investigation of the help provided to project teams at a prominent design firm revealed two distinct helping processes, both characterized by deep, sustained engagement that far exceeds... View Details
Keywords: Helping; Rhythm; Prosocial Behavior; External Team Leadership; Social Construction; Time; Qualitative Methods; Field Research; Groups and Teams; Projects; Behavior; Social and Collaborative Networks
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  • August 2018
  • Article

Deep Help in Complex Project Work: Guiding and Path-Clearing Across Difficult Terrain

By: Colin M. Fisher, Julianna Pillemer and Teresa M. Amabile
How do teams working on complex projects get the help they need? Our qualitative investigation of the help provided to project teams at a prominent design firm revealed two distinct helping processes, both characterized by deep, sustained engagement that far exceeds... View Details
Keywords: Helping; Rhythm; Prosocial Behavior; External Team Leadership; Social Construction; Time; Qualitative Methods; Field Research; Groups and Teams; Projects; Behavior; Leadership; Social and Collaborative Networks
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  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Helping You Help Me: The Role of Diagnostic (In)congruence in the Helping Process within Organizations

By: Colin M. Fisher, Julianna Pillemer and Teresa M. Amabile
Through an inductive, multi-method field study at a major design firm, we investigated the helping process in project work and how that process affects the success of a helping episode, as perceived by help-givers and/or -receivers. We used daily diary entries and... View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Knowledge Management; Performance; Cooperation
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  • January–February 2014
  • Article

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
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  • 1 Aug 2010
  • Conference Presentation

Giving and Seeking Help in Creative Teams: A Field Study at a Design Firm

By: Colin M. Fisher, Teresa M. Amabile and Julianna Pillemer
Keywords: Creativity; Groups and Teams
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  • January–February 2021
  • Article

How to Help (Without Micromanaging)

By: Colin M. Fisher, Teresa M. Amabile and Julianna Pillemer
Extensive research shows that when employees get hands-on managerial support, they perform better than when they’re left to their own devices, but unnecessary or unwanted help can be demoralizing and counterproductive. So how do you intervene constructively? The... View Details
Keywords: Helping; Employees; Groups and Teams; Management
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When the Thought Doesn’t Count: The Dynamics of Unhelpful Help in Creative Organizations

By: Colin Fisher, Julianna Pillemer and Teresa Amabile
We’ve all been there. You ask a colleague for help with something, maybe a tricky research design or a difficult student. They agree to help, but their assistance misses its mark. You wonder what happened and, if you turn to existing research and theory, you don’t find... View Details
Keywords: Helping; Organizational Culture
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  • 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

Academy of Management Journal Deep Help in Complex Project Work: Guiding and Path-clearing Across Difficult Terrain By: Fisher, Colin M., Julianna Pillemer, and Teresa View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Aug 2016
  • Conference Presentation

Deep Help: The Benefits and Perils of Intensive Collaborative Assistance in Creative Project Work

By: Teresa M. Amabile, Colin M. Fisher and Julianna Pillemer
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  • 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16

Colin M., Julianna Pillemer, and Teresa M. Amabile Abstract—Through an inductive, multi-method field study at a major design firm, we investigated the helping process in... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

  PublicationsPerspectives on the Social Psychology of Creativity Authors:Teresa M. Amabile and Julianna Pillemer Publication:Journal of Creative Behavior 46, no. 1 (2012)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

Interorganizational Conflict Authors:Elizabeth Long Lingo, Colin Fisher, and Kathleen L. McGinn Publication:In Handbook of Conflict Management Research, edited by Neal View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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