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…most responsible adults… want to do a good job and they want to be paid for it.
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To be trusted to do your job. To be treated like an adult. Isn’t that worth almost anything?
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If you could be… [trusted and treated like an adult and] given that kind of control and freedom, then wouldn’t you work your ass off to deliver results?
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Many policies are not government-regulated policies – they’re internal rules that make children out of adults.
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It is certainly important for children to learn to succeed, but it is just as important for them to learn not to fear failure. When children or adults fear failure, they fear risk. They can’t afford to be wrong.
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…maturity depends on the adult’s capacity to confront lost goals, or lost possible selves, and acknowledge regrets and sorrows over roads not taken or dreams unfulfilled.
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The happiest, most mature adults were those who could embrace the losses in their lives and transform them into sources of deep gratitude…
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When you expect your employees to act like adults, they generally do. If you treat them like children, then get ready for your company to turn into one big Barney episode.
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The fastest-growing industry in any developed country may turn out to be the continuing education of already well-educated adults, which is based on values that are all but incompatible with those of the youth culture.
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…statistics dictate that, on average, those born to married parents live longer, advance farther in school, earn more as adults, and are less likely to have emotional problems or commit crimes.
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