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…identify moments that recur in your business, and build a tool kit your team can deploy without too much effort.
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210 |
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Without this patient willingness to reject shiny new pursuits, you’ll derail your efforts before you acquire the capital you need.
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099 |
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Intrinsic motivation – deep engagement in the work – can drive people to surprising displays of seemingly unrewarded effort.
|
034 |
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The key is to design each job so that, in the act of carrying out the work, people gain knowledge about the results of their effort.
|
081 |
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Challenges will either depress or mobilize your efforts in new ways, but not both.
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368 |
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Generous and authentic leadership will always defeat the selfish efforts of someone doing it just because she can.
|
007 |
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…unless you inject and impose a higher sense of purpose, your efforts will lack soul and be less likely to succeed.
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033 |
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Staying in your areas of strength – where your efforts yield the highest return – and out of your areas of weakness is one of the keys to personal productivity.
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161 |
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Do not penalize risk taking. Praise people’s effort, help them learn from their failures, and reward their successes.
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176 |
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If all you do is work, you’re unlikely to have sound judgments. Your values and decision making wind up skewed. You stop being able to decide what’s worth the extra effort and what’s not. And you wind up just plain tired. No one makes sharp decisions when tired.
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026 |
