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Is Kindness a Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

I'm sure many supervisors at American would have issues with their colleague's innovative, if mildly deceptive, solution. In today's socially wired world, positive word of mouth is an ever more prized commodity. Heskett of Harvard Business School observes, it's important to endow workers on the front line with "latitude within limits."