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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. This let him, in short order, invite the audience to think they might sometimes show the positive kinds of bias (4:38) and then acknowledge that they definitely do so (5:00).