Posted by Riva Gianluca on January 04, 2002 at 08:49:33:

In Reply to: Re: is the relationship between knowledge and emotions a missing link? posted by Jack Vinson on January 02, 2002 at 14:20:37:

Hi Jack,
I've luckily seen your answer in spite of the huge of topics abowe us. Your questions are good questions but maybe there's a deeper problem. We don't really know what an emotion is and how it is generated. I mean, usually managers want to manage everything, but how can you possibly manage something you're not able to define? The most interesting theory about stress and knowledge creation assumes a u-curve relationship. A little amount of stress is useful to stimulate creativity, too much stress is truly harmful...But it would be interesting to connect specific emotions to knowledge creation, because emotions are not all equals: happiness, anxiety, unhappiness probably have different influences on knowledge creation. For istance, I read through a research showing that anxiety leads to less risky decision making whereas sadness leads to riskier decision making. So the topics is a damned conundrum so far.
Happy New Year

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