How to Motivate Creative People (Including Yourself), by Mark McGuinness, is available as a free download at www.wishful.fileburst.com/motivatecreate.pdf. This 52-page book covers:
- 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
It will help you:
- Understand your creative process
- Develop your creative talent
- Find more satisfaction in your work
- Influence other people
- Develop your collaboration skills
- 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
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Jeff Gamet is a contributing editor for Design Tools Monthly, the executive summary of graphic design news. He is also the morning editor and reviews editor for The Mac Observer and iPodObserver.com, and contributing writer for Layers Magazine and Photoshop User. He writes the InBrief column for InDesign Magazine, and is the author of "The Designer's Guide to Mac OS X," from Peachpit Press
When Jeff isn't writing about the graphic design world, he's talking about it on the Design Tools Weekly podcast with co-host Jay Nelson. He also talks about Apple and the Mac world every week on The Mac Observer's Apple Weekly Report.
Jeff studies, tests and reviews new software and technologies for the Macintosh community as well as the design and print industries. He is a former Pre-press specialist, and has nearly 25 years experience with computer technology. Jeff trains, lectures and consults on techniques for more efficiently using Mac OS X in creative environments throughout the country.
In the rare moments when he can get away from his MacBook Pro, Jeff spends his time climbing and biking in the Colorado mountains.
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