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You Don’t Have to Be the Boss to Change How Your Company Works

Harvard Business Review

Consider Brian Welle, a Google manager who needed to roll out a huge initiative to tackle the problem of unconscious bias in the workplace. Psychologists Muzafer Sherif and Carl Hovland identified a powerful dynamic about attitude change, and gave it a clunky name: the latitude of acceptance. The Power of Baby Steps.