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The Power of Interest and Attention - Your Mega Watt Tool for Success

Management Craft

I am doing some research into the Hawthorne studies (Western Electric Company, 1929-1932, studies so named because the research took place at the plant in Hawthorne, just outside Chicago) and came across this great quote. Interest and attention increases commitment and productivity.

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When Clinicians Know They’re Being Watched, Patients Fare Better

Harvard Business Review

In the 1920s, a series of experiments were conducted at Hawthorne Works, a Western Electric telephone factory just outside Chicago, to study the effects of lighting on worker productivity. The researchers concluded that it was the act of being studied , not the lighting, that made workers increase their productivity.