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Eventually, inevitably, if you are an independent, visionary, or principles person, you will find yourself alienated… You can let this break you, or you can let it form you…
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212 |
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…you can indeed disagree with the principles and values of an organization but ultimately, they are paying you to uphold those values and add to their collective whole.
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047 |
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When institutions fail to distinguish between current practices and the enduring principles of their success, and mistakenly fossilize around their practices, they’ve set themselves up for decline.
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036 |
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…people within an organization who have management responsibility is not command over people. It is responsibility for contribution. Function rather than power has to be the distinctive criterion and the organizing principle.
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007 |
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One [principle of organization] is surely that organization has to be transparent. People have to know and have to understand the organization structure they are supposed to work in.
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069 |
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It is a sound principle that one person in an organization should have only one ‘master.’
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069 |
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It is a sound structural principle to have the fewest layers, that is, to have an organization that is as flat as possible.
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069 |
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Personality is not your destiny – it’s your tendency. Character skills enable you to transcend that tendency to be true to your principles. It’s not about the traits you have – it’s what you decide to do with them.
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020 |
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A genuinely sound business principle will apply anywhere in life – in your friendships, in your marriage, anywhere. That’s the bottom line.
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082 |
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In economics (and in ordinary life), a basic principle is that you can never be made worse off by having more options, because you can always turn them down.
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049 |
