Teaches students to diagnose the circumstances under which, the pressure may help or hinder creativity. The creative team of "genius", Miles Grady, who had a concept revolutionary material for important new products now have to significantly change the material, so that the team can create an entirely new business. This early project to develop a new business, while supported by management, has a looming deadline proof-of-concept. The term has been extended, but the team does not seem to be close to a breakthrough he needs. The team leader, Stanley Carmine, who managed to get a period of several weeks of control, you need to figure out how best to manage Grady under the looming deadline. He studies Grady past "diaries laboratory" to detect connection, if any, between the time pressure, and other factors, and the level of creativity Grady. "Hide
by Theresa M. Amabile Source: Harvard Business School 9 pages. Publication Date: November 1, 2007. Prod. #: 808075-PDF-ENG
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