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Why People Lose Motivation — and What Managers Can Do to Help

Harvard Business Review

Firms are more agile when they encourage employees to think up new approaches and try them out, and then get feedback about how the environment responded to their ideas. For example, employees in a white-goods manufacturing plant in Italy learned about lean manufacturing by playing with Legos rather than cooktops.