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How Damaging Is a Bad Boss, Exactly?

Harvard Business Review

To take just one example, in the first of many such studies, published more than 15 years ago in HBR, Anthony Rucci, Steven Kirn, and Richard Quinn identified "the employee-customer-profit chain" at Sears.

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How to Handle Rebellion on Your Team

Harvard Business Review

In another study , Joannn Quinn showed that physicians were more likely to be seen as effective leaders when they demonstrated a higher degree of shared vision in their relationships within the hospital. But when the team members showed a high degree of shared vision in their team, the engagement scores jumped considerably higher.

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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

Instead, in 1950, in an HBR article entitled “Factors Influencing Employee Morale,” Worthy finds Sears reaping the rewards of a focus on stakeholder value, in particular from the profit-sharing plan it had instituted in 1916. Quinn write “It is no longer news that over the past five years. The results are spectacular. Rucci , Steven P.

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Why Your Brain Hates Performance Reviews

Harvard Business Review

A Golden Age Zoe Quinn’s Depression Quest The New Yorker Zoe Quinn suffers from depression, but fortunately she found her passion: inventing video games. So now the U.S. is shipping them primarily to Southeast Asia, where "success of the Red Delicious relies on targeting shoppers in places where the fruit is unfamiliar."