Ninety-four-year-old fashion discounter Loehmann's filed for bankruptcy; Filene's Basement and Syms also went under; Daffy's closed all 19 stores; JC Penney's flirtation with lower prices destroyed morale, drove away customers and nearly put the company out of business.
In August, management consultants David Bowles and Cary Cooper, following up on their 2009 book Employee Morale: Driving Performance in Challenging Times, published The High Engagement Work Culture: Balancing Me and We.
Morales drove in Guerrero with a single, but that was the last hit Sabathia allowed.
Officers exhausted from double shifts called in sick to avoid overtime duty, the report said, and poor morale had driven officers out of the agency.
Through political miscalculation, Mr Morales has driven the departments of Cochabamba and Chuquisaca into the opposition camp; even the prefect of La Paz was critical of the way the constitution was approved.
The BMA warns this could have a devastating effect on morale and drive many doctors out of the NHS.
There is no shortage of fresh, eager youth to replace them and the cycle continues – unless, of course, perennial underinvestment and flagging morale finally drive even these idealists into more sensible career choices.
Tax morale will drive higher compliance all else equal, but compliance is also a function of deterrence, and both factors work in a feedback loop.
Some analysts speculate that the Islamists' strategy is to retreat to the north, wait for the French/ECOWAS forces to assert control over the land, wage an insurgency to weaken their morale, and drive them out of northern Mali.
Gutmann has a short fuse for current efforts to change the politics of relationships between men and women; she ridicules the military's response to the 1991 Tailhook convention, seeing in it a capitulation to a humorless social work ethos that has "lowered morale and has driven people out of the forces".
