For the readers in our crowd, we present to you an eBook – How to Motivate Creative People, by Mark McGuinness from Wishful Thinking.
Mark has written a few installments of this book, this being the latest edition. You may download it and use it as a tool for yourself and your teams, with complimentary distribution under the Creative Commons license, as long as you give credit back to Mark.
If you are a leader, manager, director or coach…
This e-book will help you:
- Understand how motivation affects creativity
- Get better work out of creative people – without a bottomless budget
- Avoid (inadvertently) crushing people’s motivation
- Use rewards effectively
- Understand and influence many different types of people
- Facilitate creative collaboration
If you are a creative person (however you define that)…
It will help you:
- Understand your creative process
- Develop your creative talent
- Find more satisfaction in your work
- Influence other people
- Develop your collaboration skills
Topics covered include:
- 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
