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[ad_1] New research showed that employees who are not in positions of power can enhance creativity when given time to "warm up" to a task by engaging in the creative task more than once. "This is important because when people with more power can express their creative ideas more than those with less power, it leads to a rich-get-richer dynamic that reinforces or exacerbates these power differentials," said Brian Lucas, assistant professor at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations and co-author of "Low Power Warm-up Effect: Understanding the Effect of Power on Creativity Over Time," forthcoming in the July issue of Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.  "Understanding ways to boost the creativity of lower-power workers can help them navigate this low-power disadvantage, generate more creative ideas, and promote a more equitable workplace," Lucas said. In the study, Lucas and his co-authors found that although