Elevating What Works

Elevating What Works

Good Leaders Do This

Care About Both Objective and Subjective Fairness

Lesson 2 of 5 in Motivating Others

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Ben Baran
Aug 28, 2025
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Like many aspects of human behavior in organizations, the individual perceptions that people develop about what’s going on really matter.

Regardless of whether or not those perceptions are based on what others may consider reality, those perceptions are very real for the people who hold them. This applies to fairness in teams and organizat…

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