Mark McGuinness has written another e-book. His first, Time Management for Creative People, is already available as a free download on CreativePro.com.
The new book is titled How to Motivate Creative People (Including Yourself). Download the PDF here.
McGuinness says that if you’re a creative person, the book will help you do the following:
* Understand your creative process
* Develop your creative talent
* Find more satisfaction in your work
* Influence other people
* Develop your collaboration skills
If you’re a leader, manager, director, or coach, the book will help you:
* Understand how motivation affects creativity
* Get better work out of creative people – without a bottomless budget
* Avoid (inadvertently) crushing people’s motivation
* Use rewards effectively
* Understand and influence many different types of people
* Facilitate creative collaboration
Topics covered include:
* What makes creative people tick
* Why motivation is crucial to creative success
* Why you can’t motivate anybody — but what you can do instead
* What Iggy Pop can teach you about management
* Why offering rewards can harm creative performance
* How to write 47 novels before breakfast
* Why some people seem so weird – and how to deal with them
* The positive side of peer pressure
The e-book is published under a Creative Commons license, which means you’re welcome to download and share it on a non-commercial basis, provided you keep it in its original format and credit Mark McGuinness as the author. (Note that the images are governed by separate licenses — please see the copyright notice on page 2.)
This article was last modified on December 17, 2022
This article was first published on January 14, 2009
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