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0508 | Orly Lobel: Full Transcript

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Actually, reading the book reminded me of this old anecdote that I heard one time, a conversation between a sort of unnamed CEO and an unnamed CFO and essentially, the CFO was asking, “What happens if we invest all this money to develop our people and they leave?” and the CEO’s response is, “Well, what happens if we don’t and they stay?”.

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How Leaders Can Push Employees Without Stressing Them Out

Harvard Business Review

As the CEO of a small investment firm, I was surprised by the finding, but as I considered my own leadership style and intraoffice relationships, I concluded that the authors were onto something. In a classic article, Frederick Herzberg called these kinds of things “hygiene factors.”

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