Teresa Amabile

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“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.”

― Teresa Amabile

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“If management generally overrides people’s decisions, they quickly lose motivation to make any decision, which severely inhibits progress.”

― Teresa Amabile

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“key to leveraging the progress principle: giving people meaningful work.”

― Teresa Amabile

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“the secret to amazing performance is empowering talented people to succeed at meaningful work.”

― Teresa Amabile

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“as long as the work is meaningful, managers do not have to spend time coming up with ways to motivate people”

― Teresa Amabile

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"Track your small wins to motivate big accomplishments."

― Teresa Amabile

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

― Teresa Amabile

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"True creativity is impossible without some measure of passion."

― Teresa Amabile

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"Creativity is the generation and initial development of new, useful ideas. Innovation is the successful implementation of those ideas in an organization. Thus, no innovation is possible without the creative processes that mark the front end of the process: identifying important problems and opportunities, gathering relevant information, generating new ideas, and exploring the validity of those ideas."

― Teresa Amabile