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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. Elton Mayo - Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization , 1946 (from page 116).

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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. Another example I often give concerns the use of fuel- and carbon-efficient flight practices in the airline industry. It’s a well-documented social-science finding called the Hawthorne effect.)