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Managing for Creativity

Posted by Zonk on from the make-life-better dept.

theodp writes "After seeing some of the ideas management comes up with as a result of reading the Harvard Business Review, you may be tempted to hide their copies. But make sure they see this month's Managing for Creativity by Dr. Jim Goodnight, the still code-cranking CEO of SAS, the world's largest privately held software company." From the article: "Many academics and businesses have made inroads into this field. Management guru Peter Drucker identified the role of knowledge workers and, long before the dot-com era, warned of the perils of trying to "bribe" them with stock options and other crude financial incentives. This view is supported by the research of Harvard Business School's Teresa Amabile and Yale University's Robert Sternberg, which shows that creative people are motivated from within and respond much better to intrinsic rewards than to extrinsic ones."

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  1. Re:Well, can you at least mod me up? by Seumas · · Score: 2, Funny

    If the wife just drops her clothes, all she's getting is a sick look on my face.

    I dunno. It usually does it for me when your wife does that.

  2. Off topic... by xENoLocO · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... but damn, I would kill for his name at any party I've ever been to.

    Her: Hi, I'm Stacy...

    Me: Hi Stacy, I'm Mr. Good Night

    **slap**

    Ok, maybe not.... but the thought of it is cool.

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