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The Power of Interest and Attention - Your Mega Watt Tool for Success

Management Craft

I am doing some research into the Hawthorne studies (Western Electric Company, 1929-1932, studies so named because the research took place at the plant in Hawthorne, just outside Chicago) and came across this great quote. The need to set goals and measure performance is not an adequate excuse to overmanage or overboss people.

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Uber Shows How Not to Apply Behavioral Economics

Harvard Business Review

It’s just one of several stories of late that have cast the company in a poor light. ” One such approach, according to Scheiber, compels drivers toward collecting more fares based on the insight from behavioral sciences that people are highly influenced by goals. An estimated cost savings of $5.37