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How Technology Has Affected Wages for the Last 200 Years

Harvard Business Review

Similarly slow progress was seen in steam engines, factory electrification, and petroleum refining. One mill girl, Lucy Larcom, studied German and botany, and published poems in the mill girls’ literary magazine during the 1830s and 1840s; she came to the attention of John Greenleaf Whittier, who became her mentor.

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How the U.S. Marines Encourage Service-Based Leadership

Harvard Business Review

When employees are busy and disengaged, businesses are missing out on cost-saving ideas and innovations that could be developed from the bottom up. Greenleaf first introduced the concept of servant leadership to businesses in the mid-1900s. Left unchecked, seemingly harmless words can steal attention from performance.