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How Leaders Kill Meaning at Work
Senior executives routinely undermine creativity, productivity, and commitment by damaging the inner work lives of their employees in four avoidable ways.
February 8, 2012
As a senior executive, you may think you know what Job Number 1 is: developing a killer strategy. In fact, this is only Job 1a. You have a second, equally important task. Call it Job 1b: enabling the ongoing engagement and everyday progress of the people in the trenches of your organization who strive to execute that strategy. A multiyear research project whose results we described in [the authors'] recent book, The Progress Principle [Harvard Business Press, 2011], found that of all the events that can deeply engage people in their jobs, the single most important is making progress in meaningful work. Read more...
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