• Title How to Motivate Creative People (Including Yourself)
• Author(s) Mark McGuinness
• Publisher: Wishful Thinking (2009)
• Lic ense(s): Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 UK: England & Wales (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 UK)
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• eBook HTML and PDF (58 pages, 1.8 MB)
• Language: English
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Book Description

An e-book for leaders, managers, directors, and other creative people. It will help you: understand how motivation affects creativity, get better work out of creative people, avoid crushing people's motivation, use rewards effectively, understand and influence many different types of people, facilitate creative collaboration.

• What makes creative people tick
• Why motivation is crucial to creative success
• Why you can't motivate anybody - but what you can do instead
• What Iggy Pop can teach you about management
• Why offering rewards can harm creative performance
• How to write 47 novels before breakfast
• Why some people seem so weird - and how to deal with them
• The positive side of peer pressure

• Mark McGuinness is a poet, a coach for creative professionals, and the host of The 21st Century Creative Podcast.

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