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Track your small wins to motivate big accomplishments.
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Accomplishment
Track
Winning
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One day's happiness often predicts the next day's creativity.
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Creativity
Next Day
One Day
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True creativity is impossible without some measure of passion.
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Creativity
Impossible
Passion
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To be creative, an idea must also be appropriate—useful and actionable.
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Creative
Ideas
Insane
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The successful implementation of creative ideas within an organization.
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Ideas
Organization
Successful
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Creativity takes a hit when people in a work group compete instead of collaborate.
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Collaboration
Creativity
People
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People are most creative when they care about their work and they're stretching their skills.
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Work
Creative
People
Skills
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The best way to help people to maximize their creative potential is to allow them to do something they love.
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Learning
Creativity
People
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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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Focus
Gun
People
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When people believe that every move they make is going to affect their compensation, they tend to get risk averse.
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Believe
Moving
People
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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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Creative
Creativity
People
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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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Time
Creativity
Fighting
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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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Creative
Motivation
People
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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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Leadership
Bored
Skills
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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.
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Art
Challenges
Creativity
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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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Creativity
Skills
Thinking
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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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Creative
Ideas
Opening Up
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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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Leadership
Meaningful
Motivation
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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.
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Opportunity
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