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Higher Wages Aren’t Enough to Turn Mediocre Jobs into Good Ones

Harvard Business

For example: Constant display changes that take hours to set up and break down — hours that could have been spent on much-higher-value work like helping customers and trying out process improvements. Employees who are not empowered to improve their work or solve customer problems. Take-home pay.

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How to Beat Mid-Career Malaise

Harvard Business

” With this in mind, over time, Joel changed his management style. “No longer was I focusing solely on what I could get done as a manager,” he says. This made me more people-focused than process-focused, but it allowed for process improvements in the best way possible, by enabling people to excel.”

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