The authors, Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer, have written a book called The Progress Principle.

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Amabile and Kramer report that achieving a sense of accomplishment can be an intense personal motivator.

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Teresa Amabile: The servant leadership movement and Peter Drucker have both made the point that managers and leaders must start by serving their subordinates.

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Teresa Amabile: Probably the biggest challenge to social sector organizations is obtaining the capital needed to provide the resources for people to make progress in their work.

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It is also a book by Teresa Amabile, the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration and a Director of Research at Harvard Business School.

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As Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer suggest in The Progress Principle, we all yearn for more meaningful work where we get to use our best talents together, aptly supported by social enterprise software that leverages our capacity to accomplish greater things together.

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