TEDxAtlanta - Teresa Amabile - The Progress Principle

Teresa Amabile draws from her new book The Progress Principle to explain how companies can overcome the "crisis of disengagement" occurring in the workplace. Thank you to Definition 6 for providing in-kind video editing services for TEDxAtlanta.

[satishtalikota]

Simple thoughts move mountains.
Thank you Professor. 🙏

[ragnvaldmaartmann-moe]

Reading several of her articles for a reserach project, I´m a big fan. This presentation really demonstrates her great understanding of leadership, performance, and peoples well being.

[ideaswithmerritt]

Teresa, I can see that you must have experienced the progress principle in the process of doing your own work. Congratulations and thank you for making this creative contribution and sticking with it all these years. Suzanne Merritt

[BBRR]

great reminder for all and such a simple principle to drastically improve peoples work lives and lives in general.

[finne-dich-selbst-]

If Teresa needs all nerds cheerleader club I will be there.. This cheers me up so much!

[basemkhourma]

Thank you very much for your work on Creativity and motivation

[StandardFires]

This needs an update post covid workplaces

[growlandroll]

I'd like to point out one particular phrase she said that can be extended to other contexts as well:

01:48 "There's hope of opportunity in this crisis, because it forces us to fundamentally re-evaluate how we operate".

Can this phrase also be a call to how "you" operate? Can it be also referred as why do you have to work in something you don't like in order "to survive"?

[peggysj]

Brava, Dr. Amabaile! Excellent content expertly delivered. I am not only thinking of application already, but am about to go and make a difference right now!

[giovannisolinas]

Adriano Olivetti was putting this into practice with enormous success in 1930-1960, and he wrote a few books on how a company and a society should be organized, maybe it is time to take a closer look at it...

[rolf-atletomassen]

Case in point?
Look at timeline 4min20sec into the presentation and you see the cameraman  browsing though the audience...are they paying attention to the presentation? As I see it, too many are either checking their emails on phone, iPad or something else. So yes, I agree there is a historical high disconnect, but not only because of employers not understanding the importance, but also due to the temptations brought along with social media/mobile technology. Great challenge and a Great Opportunity :-)

[christophercanal]

Great talk! I love the idea of helping someone in a company to make progress on meaningful work. I feel that this is easier said than done. I feel that I constantly give my co-workers positive reinforcement; however, I am not convinced for someone reason. What else can you do to help others make progress, especially if your are in a company with horizontal management?

[tfadoir]

Having seen Theresa in a series of statistics instuctional videos in the 90s, I had no idea of her passion for workspace practices. My questions is whether the same best practices translate to the classroom? Teacher as manager, student as worker, "big project" as the process of learning.

[randomsparrow]

I'm listening to this talk right now for a psych class and dear ALMSIVI she gets on my nerves.

[foreverxundefined]

Work places baffle me, I spent most of my mental energy psychoanalyzing everyone's psyche, work place dynamics, & clearly realize the workplace issues. The work wasn't difficult (machinist/fabricator/retort operator) but EVERYONE made it difficult with petty workplace "politics".

[remmaxamillion]

People need to stop holding me back. Stop putting me under people who are less competent than me.

[zachdos]

I love your statistics videos made in the 80s. <3

[SergejSad]

Whoever agrees to be employee must realize that he agrees to be objectivized, dehumanized and reduced to resource (human resource as they would say). Only way to fight it is to be a partner, respect yourself, and if you see that company does not respect you the same way, quit immediately. And they do not respect you if they treat you as employee instead of partner or peer... If you are a brush, they will use you to brush the floor, that is sure. Insist on being partner, but remember, to be a partner, one must accept responsibility. So, either you are a partner, so you are a company, or you are employed by company, so you are resource, employed to do the job. You choose..

[luborfedak]

Great ideas to consider when leading a team, but unfortunately presented in really boring way. That's I believe the main point why not so many people follow her ideas and Teresa didn't appear yet on Thinkers50 ranking.

[matthewnelson]

I can tell this woman doesn't work for a living