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As traditional job silos break down and become horizontal, command-and-control hierarchies begin to lose their relevance. A new model emerges: connect and collaborate.
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Gratitude, like happiness, has become a moral obligation that we must fulfill. Without it, our culture tells us, you’re probably doomed to a life of sadness and loneliness.
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The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy. – Jeff Bezos
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Avoid bureaucracy and hierarchy and instead create a culture of discipline.
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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
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…in most hierarchies, super-competence is more objectionable than incompetence.
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Super-competence often leads to dismissal, because it disrupts the hierarchy, and thereby violates the first commandment of hierarchical life: the hierarchy must be preserved.
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Employees in a hierarchy do not really object to incompetence: they merely gossip about incompetence to mask their envy of employees who have Pull.
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See that the Patron has something to gain by assisting you, something to lose by not assisting you, to rise in the hierarchy.
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Pull will speed your upward promotion through the hierarchy. It can bring you to your level [of incompetence] much sooner.
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