![]() Jihae Shin and Adam Grant (2019), Bored by interest: Intrinsic motivation in one task can reduce performance in other tasks, Academy of Management Journal, 62, pp. ![]() We discuss theoretical and practical implications for time management, creativity, and motivation in organizations. Employees who procrastinated moderately received higher creativity ratings from their supervisors than employees who procrastinated more or less, provided that intrinsic motivation or creative requirement was high. We constructively replicated and extended the curvilinear effect in a field study with Korean employees: procrastination predicted lower task efficiency, but had an inverted-U-shaped relationship with creativity. This curvilinear effect was partially mediated by problem restructuring and the activation of new knowledge. Participants generated more creative ideas in the moderate rather than low or high procrastination conditions. In two experiments in the U.S., we tempted participants to engage in varying degrees of procrastination by making different numbers of funny YouTube videos easily accessible while they were supposed to be solving business problems. Drawing on theories of incubation, we propose that moderate procrastination can foster creativity when employees have the intrinsic motivation and opportunity to generate new ideas. Jihae Shin and Adam Grant (2020), When putting work off pays off: The curvilinear relationship between procrastination and creativity, Academy of Management Journal.Ībstract: Although it is widely assumed that procrastination is counterproductive, delaying task progress may have hidden benefits for creativity. For more details, see Continue ReadingĬonstantinos Coutifaris and Adam Grant (2021), Taking Your Team Behind the Curtain: The Effects of Leader Feedback-Sharing and Feedback-Seeking on Team Psychological Safety, Organization Science, forthcoming. He is a former magician and Junior Olympic springboard diver. He has received awards for distinguished scholarly achievement from the Academy of Management, the American Psychological Association, and the National Science Foundation, and been recognized as one of the world’s most-cited, most prolific, and most influential researchers in business and economics. from the University of Michigan and his B.A. He has more than 4 million followers on social media and features new insights in his free monthly newsletter, GRANTED.Īdam received his Ph.D. He writes on work and psychology for the New York Times, has served on the Defense Innovation Board at the Pentagon, and has been honored as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. ![]() His speaking and consulting clients include Google, the NBA, Bridgewater, and the Gates Foundation. He received a standing ovation at TED in 2016 and was voted the audience’s favorite speaker at The Nantucket Project. His TED talks on original thinkers and givers and takers have been viewed more than 25 million times. He hosts WorkLife, a chart-topping TED original podcast. His books have been named among the year’s best by Amazon, Apple, the Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Adam is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 5 books that have sold millions of copies and been translated into 35 languages: Think Again, Give and Take, Originals, Option B, and Power Moves. He has been recognized as one of the world’s 10 most influential management thinkers and Fortune’s 40 under 40. As an organizational psychologist, he is a leading expert on how we can find motivation and meaning, and live more generous and creative lives. Adam Grant has been recognized as Wharton’s top-rated professor for seven straight years.
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