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The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work
Written by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer
Narrated by Sharon Williams
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What motivates employees? As a manager, you need to know why people come to work every day, what makes them stay - and what drives them to perform at their best.
According to Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer, the best leaders are able to build a cadre of employees who have satisfying inner work lives: consistently positive emotions; strong motivation; and favorable perceptions of the organization, their work, and their colleagues. To do this, you must create forward momentum in meaningful work - and steer clear of the obstacles that undermine inner work life.
Through rigorous analysis of nearly 12,000 diary entries provided by hundreds of employees in several different organizations, Amabile and Kramer explain how you can foster progress and enhance your people's inner work life every day - in the process boosting long-term creative productivity. The book shows how you can remove common barriers to progress, such as meaningless tasks and toxic relationships, and emphasizes how these factors can disrupt employees' inner work lives.
The Progress Principle also explains how you can activate two forces that enable progress: "catalysts" - events that directly facilitate project work, such as clear goals and autonomy; and "nourishers" - interpersonal events that uplift workers, including encouragement and demonstrations of respect and collegiality.
Filled with honest, real-life examples, compelling insights, and practical advice, The Progress Principle equips aspiring and seasoned leaders alike with the guidance they need to maximize people's performance.
According to Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer, the best leaders are able to build a cadre of employees who have satisfying inner work lives: consistently positive emotions; strong motivation; and favorable perceptions of the organization, their work, and their colleagues. To do this, you must create forward momentum in meaningful work - and steer clear of the obstacles that undermine inner work life.
Through rigorous analysis of nearly 12,000 diary entries provided by hundreds of employees in several different organizations, Amabile and Kramer explain how you can foster progress and enhance your people's inner work life every day - in the process boosting long-term creative productivity. The book shows how you can remove common barriers to progress, such as meaningless tasks and toxic relationships, and emphasizes how these factors can disrupt employees' inner work lives.
The Progress Principle also explains how you can activate two forces that enable progress: "catalysts" - events that directly facilitate project work, such as clear goals and autonomy; and "nourishers" - interpersonal events that uplift workers, including encouragement and demonstrations of respect and collegiality.
Filled with honest, real-life examples, compelling insights, and practical advice, The Progress Principle equips aspiring and seasoned leaders alike with the guidance they need to maximize people's performance.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I don't read a lot of management books from cover-to-cover. I skim or read summaries. Many of them are somewhat repetitive or are based on weak evidence. But The Progress Principle is one of the best management books I've read lately. Amabile and Kramer asked 238 people on 26 project teams to complete daily surveys in which they rated their motivations, emotions, and perceptions and shared an event that happened that day. Based on analysis of this huge data set, Amabile and Kramer share some key findings, including the progress principle - making progress on meaningful work has the biggest positive impact on moods, motivation, and perceptions. Using stories from the teams they studied, they discuss how managers can support progress and uplift the people doing the work. They also provide some tips about how you can boost your motivation and mood by tracking your progress daily. Not only did I learn a lot from this book that I will share in my classes, but it also made me think about what I can do to make my work more motivating and enjoyable. It is rare to find a management book that is both evidence-based and highly readable, but The Progress Principle succeeds at both.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Employee engagement and morale decline again.Few anticipate their jobs will be a source of satisfaction.Something big is going on. The Progress Principle is key to understanding it.When your employees’ major output is intellectual (and this book is based primarily on knowledge workers) why do people give of their intellectual energy, creativity, and passion? Based upon 12,000 diary entries by workers in several businesses coded for perceptive, emotional, and motivational content, Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer uncover the answer.First, workplace motivation must be internal. They call it the internal work life. Motivation comes from nourishing that internal work life resulting in happy workers.How do we best nourish internal work life? With small wins, by making progress, even small progress, in meaningful work.How do we kill it? With setbacks, inhibitors and toxins.One of the issues this brings up for leaders is organizational bounds within which we create a protected environment of trust and collaboration and the boundary at which that turns to competition. Some leadership writers have advocated a very competitive environment where trust ends and competition begins at your skin. The evidence here, however, is that creating a more trusting, nourishing environment of collaboration results in improved work output. It may be the most important reason organizations exist.The book left me with this bigger question: why are the actions of most managers instinctively harmful in this new environment? They persist with inappropriate motivators that have been shown to lower creativity output. They have been brought up on the idea that being a leader means turning others into followers, and this just doesn’t work. For more, see leader-leader.org.