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It’s hard to imagine a surer sign that one is dealing with an irrational economic system than the fact that the prospect of eliminating drudgery is considered to be a problem.
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261 |
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When we are motivated by fear of failure, stress hormones flood our systems.
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012 |
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Going where no one has is a wicked problem. There is no well-defined formula or perfect system of feedback to follow.
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289 |
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…appearances can be deceiving: some ostensibly flat, loose, and bottom-up companies and systems turn out to be quite different upon a closer look.
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045 |
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Good bosses design systems and architecture, even those bosses who locate decision-making at lower levels of the organization.
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085 |
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Modular systems are more robust against outside disturbances than nonmodular ones.
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166 |
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Modules are smaller pieces of a larger system that can be combined in different ways.
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167 |
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Most workers don’t want or need a manager telling them what to do and when to do it. But managers have to design the system in which empowered, autonomous, educated knowledge workers can flourish.
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245 |
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If your project is ambitious and depends on other people and many parts, it is all but certain that your project is embedded in complex systems.
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012 |
