Another report on the same study, from Jan. 2001 in the Harvard Business Review: http://hbr.org/2010/01/the-hbr-list-breakthrough-ideas-for-2010/ar/1 http://hbr

Another report on the same study, from Jan. 2001 in the Harvard Business Review: http://hbr.org/2010/01/the-hbr-list-breakthrough-ideas-for-2010/ar/1 http://hbr.org/2010/01/the-hbr-list-breakthrough-ideas-for-2... Here, the authors identify "making progress" as the single best predictor (of a number that they looked for) for job satisfaction, beginning a circle that is closed with the NYT article.