Harvard Business ReviewTeresa Amabile

Three Components of CreativityExpertise

Creative Thinking Skills

Motivation

Managerial PracticesChallenge

Freedom

Resources

Work-Group Features

Supervisory Encouragement

Organizational Support

ChallengeMatching people to the right tasks

Play to their expertise and skills in creative thinking

Stretch employees’ abilities

Detailed information about employees

Not trying to obtain the information necessary to make good connections between people and jobs

Freedom

More freedom leads to better creativity

Change in goals or not clearly defined

Not truly granting independence

ResourcesTime and money

Fake deadlines kill creativity

Keep resources tight

Work-Group FeaturesPay careful attention to the design of a team

Teams need to show excitement, willingness, and the recognition of what other team members bring to the table

Assembling homogeneous teams

Supervisory Encouragement

Make sure the employee feels valued

Failing to acknowledge innovative efforts or by greeting them with skepticism leads to killing creativity

Organizational SupportThe entire organization needs to support

creativity

Reward employees who are creative

Mandate information sharing and collaboration

Fighting and gossip in an organization can lead to the damage of creativity

Rewards and RisksFostering creativity is in the hands of the

managers

Creativity often requires managers to radically change the ways in which they build and interact with work groups.

When creativity is killed, there is a lose of new ideas, energy, and commitment from the employees

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