Sublime

It turns out, people matter. You can study all the theory in the world and not be prepared for the hair standing up on the back of your neck because you just don’t trust someone.

among the most popular Harvard Business Review articles of all time, Frederick Herzberg reveals research showing that the two primary internal motivators for people are achievement and recognition for achievement.

In a paper entitled ‘A Theory of Human Motivation’ published in Psychological Review in 1943, Maslow arranged our longings and appetites in a pyramid-shaped continuum, ranging from what he called the lower needs, largely focused on the body, to the higher needs, largely focused on the psyche and encompassing such elements as the need for status,

hiring needs would expand to include a major role for less skilled professionals and more paraprofessionals, since the increased structuring of familiar engagement types would allow the firm to employ an increasing degree of…

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Take storage-product retailer The Container Store, which has been named to the Fortune list of Best Companies to Work For 14 years in a row (and counting!). Its Foundational Principle #1 is “1 Equals 3” — one great person equals three good people in terms of business productivity.

“the Law of the Vital Few.”