Archive for May 2025

I remember being invited to participate in a company’s senior leadership development program over 20 years ago. The program involved extensive assessment like a detailed survey that had to be filled out ahead of time by a prescribed mixture of direct reports, internal customers, external customers, direct boss, and senior executives. The program also involved…

Workplace environment impacts creativity from my experience and from creativity research. Dr. Teresa Amabile set out to create a social psychology of creativity as a PhD candidate at Stanford University in 1972 and continuing in her role as professor at Harvard Business School. She was the first to study the impact of workplace environment on…

Creativity can be unleashed at work through different triggers such as being assigned a project that requires new thinking, investing in learning to catalyze new and useful ideas, and pursuing projects for which you have intrinsic interest. There are other ways to unleash creativity at work that are thought to be in the purview of…