when a player experienced a highly abusive leadership style, the player’s entire career trajectory was shifted a notch downward. Not only did their performance drop off, but the coach’s style rubbed off on the players. Players who experienced an abusive leadership style had more technical fouls, an indicator of aggression, throughout the remainder of their careers. Keep in mind, these were players from the NBA, paid millions of dollars to win games. The researchers gave away their opinion of such coaching styles in the title of their paper, “Scarred for the Rest of My Career? Career-Long
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