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Can We Reverse The Stanford Prison Experiment?

Harvard Business Review

It is an observation that has been made as far back as the 1968 issue of HBR in an article by Frederick Herzberg titled, "One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees?" ( PDF ). Vishen Lakhiani, CEO of Mind Valley , a new generation media and publishing company, has done just that at Gratitude Log. achievement and (2.)

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May the Force — of Inspiring Leadership — Be with You

The Practical Leader

May 4 th has become an annual commemoration of the Star Wars media franchise. Less effective managers see “their people” as coin-operated human resources (assets with skin) to be manipulated with money. In his seminal 1959 book, The Motivation to Work , Psychologist Frederick Herzberg outlined his Motivator-Hygiene Theory.