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Creativity in Teams: The Truth Hurts

Various social effects dampen creativity, while individuals are free of at least some of those effects

Stowe Boyd
Apr 10, 2015
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Photo by MING Labs on Unsplash

I’ve always felt that I was more creative when working alone than in teams, but for most of my career, I was afraid to say so, worried that others would consider me a selfish loner. You might feel the same.

Of course, that feeling was shaped by decades of alternating between solo work and teamwork, so it was grounded in pers…

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