How I Learned to Let My Workers Lead. Ralph Stayer

      

      HOW I LEARNED TO

      LET MY WORKERS

      LEAD

      Harvard Business Review

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      HOW I LEARNED TO

      LET MY WORKERS

      LEAD

      Ralph Stayer

      Harvard Business Press

      Boston, Massachusetts

      Copyright 2009 Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation

      Published in the Harvard Business Review in 1990

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Stayer, Ralph C.

      How I learned to let my workers lead / Ralph Stayer.

      p. cm.—(Harvard business review classics)

      ISBN 978-1-4221-3845-8 (pbk. : alk. paper)

      1. Leadership. 2. Management—Employee participation.

      3. Employee motivation. I. Title.

      HD57.7.S7249 2009

      658.4'092–dc22

      2009010479

      The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Publications and Documents in Libraries and Archives Z39.48−1992.

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      HOW I LEARNED TO

      LET MY WORKERS

      LEAD