Toolkit Library/

The business case for curiosity

Curiosity is what drives innovation in many organizations and improves organizational effectiveness, yet leaders might not do enough to encourage curiosity in the workplace, often due to concerns about efficiency. In this article in Harvard Business Review, Harvard professor Francesca Gino discusses the barriers to curiosity and explains that curiosity reduces conflict, opens the lines of communication, improves decision-making, and increases creativity.

   Article

   20 minutes

   By: Francesca Gino, Harvard Business Review

   Leader-prep | Lifelong learners


Making connections:

Principled Innovation asks us to work with others and recognize the limits of our own knowledge so that we can better understand and tackle the complex issues our communities face.

More on this topic:

Empathy Interview

  Tool

  20 minutes

  By: Principled Innovation® (PI)

Future headlines

  Tool

  60 minutes

  By: Principled Innovation® (PI)

K-5 Card Deck Activity: Creativity

  Tool

  30 minutes

  By: Principled Innovation® (PI)

How to cultivate curiosity in your classroom

  Article

  20 minutes

  By: Amy L. Eva, Greater Good Science Center

Five surprising things you might not know about creativity

  Article

  30 minutes

  By: Amber Kane

Access our collection of +200 learning materials

PI toolkit library