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The Progress Principle

Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work

by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer

|Harvard Business Review Press©2011·272 pages

Teresa Amabile is the Director of Research at Harvard Business School. It’s pretty much impossible to read a book on business, creativity, or happiness at work and not run into her research. She wrote this book with her husband, leading developmental psychologist Steven Kramer. In it, we learn the secret of joy, engagement and creativity at work. Hint: Small wins! On (important distinction) meaningful stuff. Big Ideas we explore include the power of our “inner work life,” the 3 key influences to optimizing it (progress, catalysts, nourishers) and how to get on the progress loop and stay on it!


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About the authors

Teresa Amabile
Author

Teresa Amabile

Professor & director of research at Harvard Business School.
Steven Kramer
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Steven Kramer

Independent researcher and writer in Wayland, Massachusetts.
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