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The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work

Members of Great Groups also need relative autonomy, a sine qua non of creativity. No Great Group was ever micromanaged.

Patricia Ward Biederman • Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration

When Amabile analyzed 12,000 diary entries of employees from a variety of industries, she found that 76% of people reported that their best days involved making progress toward goals.

Paul J. Zak • The Neuroscience of Trust

“I kept my idea a secret from anyone who could not directly help to move it forward. That was my gut instinct at the time, but it’s now one of the best pieces of advice I have to give. Ideas are the most vulnerable at the moment you have them; that’s also the time people are most inclined to run around seeking validation from everyone they know. Di

Many Great Groups have a dual administration. They have a visionary leader, and they have someone who protects them from the outside world, the “suits.”

Patricia Ward Biederman • Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration

Building Software With a Soul

Jasmine Sun joinreboot.org

One vital function of the leaders of Great Groups is to keep the stress in check. Innovative places are exhilarating, but they are also incubators for massive coronar-ies. Sundays off helped at Los Alamos and the Skunk Works.

Patricia Ward Biederman • Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration

Successful groups reflect the leader’s profound, not necessarily conscious, understanding of what brilliant people want. Most of all, they want a worthy challenge, a task that allows them to explore the whole continent of their talent. They want colleagues who stimulate and challenge them and whom they can admire. What they don’t want are trivial d

Patricia Ward Biederman • Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration

the way an environment is structured can have an enormous impact on creativity, for good or for ill. The atmosphere most conducive to creativity is one in which individuals have a sense of autonomy and yet are focused on the collective goal. Constraint (perceived as well as real) is a major killer of creativity, Amabile has found. Freedom or autono