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Do Deadlines Kill Creativity?

Do deadlines make you more creative? Marketplace commentator Teresa Amabile, a professor at Harvard Business School and co-author of The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work, doesn’t think so. According to her research, professionals are 45% less likely to “come up with a new idea or solve a…

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How to Achieve Goals as a Deadline Junky

Like many self-identified ?creative? people, I ‘ve got tremendous issues with maintaining focus, shabby impulse control and a zeal for over-committing my time. Oh, and I’m a junky. A deadline junky. To clarify, I’m not addicted to having a deadline ? due dates are proven productivity tools, which I applaud. Overachievers love beating them (?on…