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You Don’t Have to Be the Boss to Change How Your Company Works

Harvard Business Review

Psychologists Muzafer Sherif and Carl Hovland identified a powerful dynamic about attitude change, and gave it a clunky name: the latitude of acceptance. Don’t expect to achieve all your goals in a single shot. Motivating change primarily by appealing to lofty principles. The Power of Baby Steps.