Teresa Amabile Quotes

#1. When people believe that every move they make is going to affect their compensation, they tend to get risk averse.

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#2. One day's happiness often predicts the next day's creativity.

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#3. The desire to do something because you find it deeply satisfying and personally challenging inspires the highest levels of creativity, whether
it's in the arts, sciences, or business.

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#4. The successful implementation of creative ideas within an organization.

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#5. People can certainly be creative when they're under the gun, but only when they're able to focus on the work.

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#6. True creativity is impossible without some measure of passion.

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#7. Most people aren't anywhere near to realizing their creative potential, in part because they're laboring in environments that impede intrinsic motivation.

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#8. People are most creative when they care about their work and they're stretching their skills.

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#9. Track your small wins to motivate big accomplishments.

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#10. The best way to help people to maximize their creative potential is to allow them to do something they love.

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#11. People will be most creative when they feel motivated primarily by the interest, enjoyment, satisfaction and challenge of the work itself.

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#12. If you facilitate your subordinates' steady progress in meaningful work, make that progress salient to them, and treat them well, they will experience the emotions, motivations, and perceptions necessary for great performance.

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#13. To be creative, an idea must also be appropriate - useful and actionable. It must somehow influence the way business gets done by improving a product, for instance, or by opening up a new way to approach a process.

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#14. Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and the capacity to push through uncreative dry spells.

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#15. If the challenge is far beyond their skill level, they tend to get frustrated; if it's far below their skill level, they tend to get bored. Leaders need to strike the right balance.

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#16. Creativity takes a hit when people in a work group compete instead of collaborate.

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#17. People are the least creative when fighting the clock ... Time pressure stifles creativity because people can't deeply engage with the problem.

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