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HBR's 10 Must Reads 2018
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HBR's 10 Must Reads 2018

by Harvard Business Review, Michael E. Porter, Robert S. Kaplan, Daniel Kahneman, Roger L. Martin
October 2017
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
288 pages
5h 10m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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Let Your Workers Rebel

by Francesca Gino

THROUGHOUT OUR CAREERS, we are taught to conform—to the status quo, to the opinions and behaviors of others, and to information that supports our views. The pressure only grows as we climb the organizational ladder. By the time we reach high-level positions, conformity has been so hammered into us that we perpetuate it in our enterprises. In a recent survey I conducted of more than 2,000 employees across a wide range of industries, nearly half the respondents reported working in organizations where they regularly feel the need to conform, and more than half said that people in their organizations do not question the status quo. The results were similar when I surveyed high-level executives and midlevel ...

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ISBN: 9781633693074