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When You Have to Carry Out a Decision You Disagree With

Harvard Business Review

You might even be tempted to communicate to your peers and supervisees that you’re not convinced this is the right way to go. Resist that temptation. This is what I did early in my academic career when I received peer review comments on a paper I’d submitted for publication.

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Make Your Knowledge Workers More Productive

Harvard Business Review

So large-scale re-engineering programs, productivity drives, and changes to the incentive system are unlikely to work: they can easily be resisted, ignored or gamed. The team leaders could not offer more money, but they could offer employees opportunities to develop their careers, new technologies to work on, and new colleagues to work with.