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Rules

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103 Quote(s) Found

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Routines provide the hundreds of unwritten rules that companies need to operate.

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The fact is that many bosses really don’t get it or want it – yet both are crucial.

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…rarely does anyone recognize that my secret rule is… questions only.

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Despite the best of intentions, people create rules variously and often in reaction to behaviors deemed unacceptable to the larger goals of the group.

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Rules don’t govern human progress, they govern the human past.

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To succeed… we must learn to dance with the rules.

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We overrespect rules, which leads us into a quagmire where all our actions get mucked up in the spectrum of legal permissibility.

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True freedom lies not in the absence of constraint; true freedom lies in the transcendence of rules-based thinking.

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Transcending the rules-trapped language of can and embracing the values-inspired language of should illuminates the pathways to truly innovative solutions…

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Thinking in the language of values frees you from the tyranny of rules and from the illusion of freedom you have when in their negative space.

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