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When creativity feels rewarding: intrinsic and extrinsic motivation

Idea to Value

The most successful creative people are the ones who put in the time and effort. They have the grit to work and practice for years, in order to build up the skills to produce highly creative work. And for people who are a bit older, what types of creative activities can boost your motivation to keep going?

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Case study of agile and UCD working together

Boxes and Arrows

Large scale websites require groups of specialists to design and develop a product that will be a commercial success. To develop a completely new site requires several teams to collaborate and this can be difficult. Particularly as different teams may be working with different methods. People make or break any project.

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Workplace Conflict: Statistics That Reveal Its Cost

CMOE

It’s possible to learn how to effectively manage conflict with training. Once you know why and when workplace conflict occurs, its effects, and other vital information, you can learn how to help your teams go through it and find the rewards beyond it. Figuring out which team members should take which tasks.

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

In essence it is nowadays recognized as the difference between creativity (Schumpetarian) and alertness (Kirzner) – creation versus discovering. When to be creative, when to be managerial. Is it easy to create autonomous team and projects? And a successful entrepreneur knows when to act causational and when to act effectuative.

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Alignment Diagrams

Boxes and Arrows

Bad experience. Indi Young developed this technique and detailed it in her book Mental Models (Rosenfeld Media, 2008) [2]. Designers have the skills to creatively brainstorm and lead such sessions. Learn about alignment diagrams. For some things I used their website, for others I had to call. Why does this happen?

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Great Teams: An Interview with Don Yaeger

Michael Roberto

His newest book is titled, Great Teams: 16 Things High Performing Organizations Do Differently. You focus in the book on the notion that great sports teams build a strong high-performance culture. Targeting Purpose— The team is connected to a greater purpose. Targeting Purpose— The team is connected to a greater purpose.

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How to Keep Innovating During an Economic Crisis

Innov8rs

As long as innovation teams have a strategic approach to solving old problems with new solutions, organizations can expect to not only survive but also thrive. You may be constantly adapting to limited resources and pushed into a corner during a weak economic climate. It does pay off to go back to basics.