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How Leaders Can Push Employees Without Stressing Them Out

Harvard Business Review

One of the most interesting findings of a recent HBR article on team chemistry is that the types of people who become leaders within organizations are about 30% less likely than their coworkers to feel stressed out. You and Your Team Series. In a classic article, Frederick Herzberg called these kinds of things “hygiene factors.”

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May the Force — of Inspiring Leadership — Be with You

The Practical Leader

” This is a powerful analogy for the leadership and culture energy fields that bind teams and organizations together. ” Weak Managers Try Manipulating with Money. Less effective managers see “their people” as coin-operated human resources (assets with skin) to be manipulated with money.

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Can We Reverse The Stanford Prison Experiment?

Harvard Business Review

It is the minimum ratio of positive to negatives that has to exist for a team to flourish. On higher-performing teams (and marriages for that matter) the ratio jumps to 5:1. The logic is that we can increase the odds of people operating with courage by teaching them the principles of heroism. But does it hold true in policing?