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Everything boils down to results and so managers have some control over what the results are going to be. But the employees don’t need to be controlled as much as they used to.
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In [the doomsayers’] minds, even if work sucks, they think that at least the status quo affords some measure of stability and control. Without that control a business descends into anarchy.
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As a result [of having control over their time] people take ownership of their work. They are being paid for results so they start behaving like entrepreneurs. They feel like they have a stake in the business.
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When you are in control you have the power to solve problems.
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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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The next generation of employees will have grown up with too much control over their time to give it up for the sake of a job.
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We’re run by the automatic processes of the primitive parts of our prefrontal cortex. In short, we think we’re in charge of our lives, but often we’re not.
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We have vastly more control over how we experience what happens to us – and how we behave as a result – than we ordinarily believe.
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Unless we’re observing our own emotions – and intentionally taking control of them – we’re often the product of our most recent experiences.
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Gaining more control of our attention, it turns out, is intimately linked to our capacity to delay gratification.
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