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Amabile is a professor at Harvard Business School known for her research on creativity, motivation, and workplace innovation.
Known for: The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work
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The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work
Based on extensive research into workplace motivation, this book reveals that the key to boosting performance and satisfaction lies in making consistent progress in meaningful work. Amabile and Kramer show how small daily wins can dramatically enhance employees’ emotions, motivation, and creativity, offering practical strategies for managers to foster a more engaged and innovative workforce.
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The Inner Work Life
At the heart of our research lies what we call the inner work life—the continuous interplay of emotions, perceptions, and motivations that every person carries through each workday. Whether explicitly visible or not, this inner dynamic profoundly shapes behavior and performance. Too often, organizat...
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The Power of Progress
Through our diary studies, one pattern persisted so strongly that it became impossible to ignore: of all the factors that influence inner work life, the most potent is progress. Even seemingly trivial advancements—resolving a problem, creating a new idea, completing a small step—can generate a dispr...
From The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work
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Amabile is a professor at Harvard Business School known for her research on creativity, motivation, and workplace innovation.
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