The HBR List: Breakthrough Ideas for 2010

When the business community supports an idea, change can happen fast. HBR’s annual ideas collection, compiled in cooperation with the World Economic Forum, offers 10 fresh solutions we believe would make the world better. Ranging from productivity boosting to nation building, from health care to hacking, any of the ideas presented in the following pages […]

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From the Magazine (January–February 2010)

1: What Really Motivates Workers

by Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer

A version of this article appeared in the January–February 2010 issue of Harvard Business Review.

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Teresa M. Amabile is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and a coauthor of The Progress Principle. Her current research investigates how life inside organizations can influence people and their performance, as well as how people approach and experience the transition to retirement.
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Steven J. Kramer is an independent researcher, writer, and consultant in Wayland, Massachusetts. He is a coauthor of “Creativity Under the Gun” (HBR August 2002) and “Inner Work Life” (HBR May 2007). Their book The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work is forthcoming from Harvard Business Review Press.
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Eric Bonabeau (eric@icosystem.com) is the chairman of Icosystem, a strategy-consulting firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Robert E. Litan is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He can be followed on Twitter @BobLitan.
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Josh Klein is a hacker, consultant, and host of the National Geographic series The Link. He is currently researching a book on reputational economics (Macmillan, forthcoming 2013). His last book was Hacking Work: Breaking Stupid Rules for Smart Results. Follow his tweets @joshuaklein.
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1: What Really Motivates Workers

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