The Case for Trash-Talking at Work, According to Research
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 18, 2017
As a result, we found that trash-talking boosted motivation and productivity. As a manager, does this mean you should trash-talk your employees to make them more productive? We contrasted the effects of trash-talking in competitive interactions with the effects of incivility in cooperative interactions. No, don’t do it.
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