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Purpose, Meaning, and Passion (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)
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Purpose, Meaning, and Passion (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)

by Harvard Business Review, Morten T. Hansen, Teresa M. Amabile, Scott A. Snook, Nick Craig
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
192 pages
1h 48m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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The Power of Small Wins

By Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer

What is the best way to drive innovative work inside organizations? Important clues hide in the stories of world-renowned creators. It turns out that ordinary scientists, marketers, programmers, and other unsung knowledge workers, whose jobs require creative productivity every day, have more in common with famous innovators than most managers realize. The workday events that ignite their emotions, fuel their motivation, and trigger their perceptions are fundamentally the same.

The Double Helix, James Watson’s 1968 memoir about discovering the structure of DNA, describes the roller coaster of emotions he and Francis Crick experienced through the progress and setbacks of the work ...

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ISBN: 9781633696280