November 2020
Beginner
208 pages
4h 49m
English
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Creativity (with bonus article "How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity" By Ed Catmull)
by Harvard Business Review, Francesca Gino, Adam Grant, Ed Catmull, Teresa M. Amabile
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How to Kill Creativity
by Teresa M. Amabile
WHEN I CONSIDER all the organizations I have studied and worked with over the past 22 years, there can be no doubt: Creativity gets killed much more often than it gets supported. For the most part, this isn’t because managers have a vendetta against creativity. On the contrary, most believe in the value of new and useful ideas. However, creativity is undermined unintentionally every day in work environments that were established—for entirely good reasons—to maximize business imperatives such as coordination, productivity, and control.
Managers cannot be expected to ignore business imperatives, of course. But in working toward these imperatives, they may be inadvertently designing organizations that ...
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