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What Makes Startups Creativity-Tanks? | Sramana Mitra

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What Makes Startups Creativity-Tanks? | Sramana Mitra
By Guest Author Marylene Delbourg-Delphis Peter Cappelli, Professor of Management at Wharton School and Director of the Wharton's Center for Human Resources endorsed Marylene Delbourg-Delphis' book Everybody Wants to Love Their Job: Rebuilding Trust and Culture, saying "The energizing culture of the start-up world can be imported to even the biggest organizations. A powerful case for bringing the human element back into management." Startups are inspirational for many reasons. The "human element" is definitely one of them. The human magic in startups is due to the cohesiveness that organizational literature sees as the secret of great teams — a smaller number of people federated around a project whose effectiveness is defined by five ingredients, well summarized by Julia Rozovsky at Google: Psychological safety: Can we take risks on this team without feeling insecure or embarrassed? Dependability: Can we count on each other to do high-quality work on time? Structure and clarity: Are
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