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Where There’s No Margin for Toxic Leadership

Harvard Business Review

The CEO thought he needed to step out of the chief sales role to focus on operations and finances. By 2005, the Chief Lightning Catcher found a company that wanted to acquire the firm and provide badly needed investment capital. But in December 2005, the offer fell through. Consider the case of a $30 million manufacturer.

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When Treating Workers Well Leads to More Innovation

Harvard Business Review

In a recent working paper , currently under review by the Journal of Corporate Finance, researchers from Monash University and LaTrobe University in Australia compared a common measure of worker treatment to patent data, and found that companies with higher worker treatment scores produced more patents, and more highly cited patents.