To stoke creativity, crank out ideas and then step away

(University of Texas at Austin) There is an effective formula for unlocking employees' creative potential, according to new research from the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin and the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Employers should incentivize workers to produce an abundance of ideas -- even mediocre ones -- and then have them step away from the project for an 'incubation period.'
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news