Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 31, 2018

Helping employees find significance simply takes time, energy, and engagement. This was seen in a study called the Hawthorne Effect , which was run by Elton Mayo at Western Electric’s Hawthorne Works factory, outside of Chicago, IL, in the late 1920’s and early 1930’s. Productivity was carefully monitored following each change.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Recently, a fraternity advertised a Cinco de Mayo party featuring margaritas and other typical features of the Americanized holiday. Southwest Airlines is a great example; flight attendants and pilots joke all the time. Dartmouth College, the League’s historically most fun school, is suffering from a serious lack of humor.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2016

As Tony Mayo, director of the Leadership Initiative at Harvard Business School, has put it, “Success in the 21st century will require leaders to pay attention to the evolving context” a business is operating in. The conversations that ensued were more candid than any I’d experienced in my career.

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