by Worldchanging Austin local blogger, William Wurtz: Today, the organizations most of us work in are coming more and more to resemble pressure cookers. We all feel it. More demands to produce better results faster, more people in a team environment to whom one has responsibilities, more meetings … and, oh, by the way, if we want to be in business a few years from now, everybody needs to be much more creative to come up with the innovative products, services and process improvements that will enable us to survive in today’s ruthless marketplace. Unfortunately, creativity doesn’t flourish under high pressure and cannot be summoned under the crack of a whip, according to Harvard professor Theresa Amabile. She also happens to be one of the world’s leading researchers on creativity in the workplace. Working with colleagues from the Harvard Business School and Yale School of Management, Amabile conducted a study recently about the effect of time pressures on creativity, involving nearly two hundred employees from seven different American companies representing chemical, high tech, and consumer products sectors. The employees participating in the study were all highly-educated knowledge workers; 85 percent were college graduates, and many of these had additional… (more)
(Posted by WorldChanging Team in Business at 11:06 AM)