One day’s happiness often predicts the next day’s creativity.
Track your small wins to motivate big accomplishments.
True creativity is impossible without some measure of passion.
Creativity takes a hit when people in a work group compete instead of collaborate.
The best way to help people to maximize their creative potential is to allow them to do something they love.
Most people aren’t anywhere near to realizing their creative potential, in part because they’re laboring in environments that impede intrinsic motivation.
People are most creative when they care about their work and they’re stretching their skills.
People will be most creative when they feel motivated primarily by the interest, enjoyment, satisfaction and challenge of the work itself.
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.
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.
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.
People can certainly be creative when they’re under the gun, but only when they’re able to focus on the work.
When people believe that every move they make is going to affect their compensation, they tend to get risk averse.
To be creative, an idea must also be appropriate – useful and actionable.
The successful implementation of creative ideas within an organization.
If management generally overrides people’s decisions, they quickly lose motivation to make any decision, which severely inhibits progress.
Because they spend so much of their lives working, people deserve the dignity of having positive lives at work.
Work that is devoid of meaning, interest, and joy can lead to lives that feel very empty indeed.