Teresa Amabile: 6 books

What is the nature of human happiness, and how do we achieve it in the course of our professional lives? And is it even worth pursuing? This book explores answers to these questions with research into how happiness is measured, frameworks for personal behaviors, management techniques that build...

What really sets the best managers above the rest? It’s their power to build a cadre of employees who have great inner work lives-consistently positive emotions; strong motivation; and favorable perceptions of the organization, their work, and their colleagues. The worst managers undermine inner...

Daniel Goleman asked Teresa Amabile, Howard Gardner, and Daniel Siegel: what are the key traits that differentiate top executives? Their respective research looks at the psychology of innovative, ethical, and emotionally intelligent leaders.  

The Executive Edge: An Insider’s Guide to Outstanding Leadership is a 294-page print edition of Daniel Goleman’s interviews with experts in executive management, organizational research, workplace psychology, negotiation, and senior hiring.

A carefully curated selection of articles about purpose and meaning from Harvard Business Review. Describes the research behind our need for meaning in our work. Lays out a number of different paths for finding purposeful work. Connects individual passion with the mission of the...

The ideas presented in this book have been incubating for over 25 years. I was in the first grade, I believe, when the ideas that eventually developed into this social psychology of creativity first began to germinate. The occasion was art class, a weekly Friday afternoon event during which we were...