Have you noticed that in dangerous jobs, good bosses tend to have deep bonds with their workers? Whether it’s a captain and crew on a crab fishing boat in the Bering Sea, a platoon commander and his troops in Afghanistan, or a tree-cutting foreman and his team in the forest — people in dangerous working conditions sense they need to trust each other and their boss to survive.
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Feeling connected emotionally is intrinsically rewarding to the brain.
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