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…twenty-first-century business craves creativity and innovation over almost all else, and freeing yourself from the constraints of rules-based thought unleashes new pathways of exploration and possibility.
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Rules control and limit how we do what we do; only values-based self-governance can simultaneously control behavior and inspire us to do more.
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Values place governance within each person rather than in persons or rule sets external to them, establishing the conditions for a very different type of culture to grow.
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It’s an important managerial rule to never ask a question of your directs if you don’t intend to honor their answer.
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I recommend living by this simple rule: Make very few promises to your people, and keep them all.
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Every time you make a rule, you take away a choice. And choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.
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You cannot put in what was left out, you can only draw out what was left in.
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Most organizations, especially big ones, have written policies that sound like censored versions of the no asshole rule.
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…having one conspicuous rule-breaker can spur others to do the right thing.
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…the 80-20 rule… surrounds us everywhere in the natural and social world.
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