Chapter 1 What is double awareness?
The importance and challenge of reflective spaces
To aid creativity and achieve more, try doing less.
– Teresa Amabile
The feeling of not quite managing to keep up is a familiar one to most people. For some, it is a constant feeling. For others, it comes and goes. Teresa Amabile, a scholar of business administration at Harvard Business School, compares today’s working life with running on a treadmill, constantly trying to keep up with the demands of emails, meetings and deadlines while also striving to live up to the persistent need to be productive, efficient and innovative. Performance- and achievement-oriented organizational cultures require high levels of activity and ...
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