Teresa Amabile

Creativity is the generation and initial development of new, useful ideas. Innovation is the successful implementation of those ideas in an organization.…

— Teresa Amabile

Creativity takes a hit when people in a work group compete instead of collaborate.

— Teresa Amabile

To be creative, an idea must also be appropriate—useful and actionable.

— Teresa Amabile

When people believe that every move they make is going to affect their compensation, they tend to get risk averse.

— Teresa Amabile

Most people aren't anywhere near to realizing their creative potential, in part because they're laboring in environments that impede intrinsic motivation.

— Teresa Amabile

“If you want to foster great inner work life, focus first on eliminating the obstacles that cause setbacks. Why? Because one setback…

— Teresa Amabile

To be creative, an idea must also be appropriate - useful and actionable. It must somehow influence the way business gets done…

— Teresa Amabile

If you facilitate your subordinates' steady progress in meaningful work, make that progress salient to them, and treat them well, they will…

— Teresa Amabile

“But if the testing is decoupled from the programming task, if it is done by someone else, that programmer cannot enjoy an…

— Teresa Amabile

People will be most creative when they feel motivated primarily by the interest, enjoyment, satisfaction and challenge of the work itself.

— Teresa Amabile

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

— Teresa Amabile

One day's happiness often predicts the next day's creativity.

— Teresa Amabile

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

— Teresa Amabile

“In light of our results, managers who say—or secretly believe—that employees work better under pressure, uncertainty, unhappiness, or fear are just plain…

— Teresa Amabile

The successful implementation of creative ideas within an organization.

— Teresa Amabile

Track your small wins to motivate big accomplishments.

— Teresa Amabile

Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and…

— Teresa Amabile

If the challenge is far beyond their skill level, they tend to get frustrated; if it's far below their skill level, they…

— Teresa Amabile

People are the least creative when fighting the clock... Time pressure stifles creativity because people can't deeply engage with the problem.

— Teresa Amabile

People are most creative when they care about their work and they're stretching their skills.

— Teresa Amabile

True creativity is impossible without some measure of passion.

— Teresa Amabile

“Our research inside companies revealed that the best way to motivate people, day in and day out, is by facilitating progress—even small…

— Teresa Amabile

People can certainly be creative when they're under the gun, but only when they're able to focus on the work.

— Teresa Amabile

The desire to do something because you find it deeply satisfying and personally challenging inspires the highest levels of creativity, whether it's…

— Teresa Amabile