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Policies

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11 Quote(s) Found

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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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…as data quality improves and number of data points multiplies, machine intelligence might tell us that a particular mix of regulations and monetary policy will lead to a financial crisis…

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The effectiveness of critical business policies depends on the extent to which our assumptions about human motivation are correct.

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The unspoken culture we operate in trumps any policy on the books or nice speech by the boss. We create culture by the stories we tell ourselves. And change gets a little easier when it’s visible.

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…policies, rules, and procedures, even sensible ones, become barriers to strategic speed.

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…typical corporate policy doesn’t ask people to challenge how they behave.

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Many policies are not government-regulated policies – they’re internal rules that make children out of adults.

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Most organizations enable our dysfunctional behaviors and even encourage them through policies, practices, reward systems and cultural messages that serve to drain our energy and run down our value over time.

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Rational or not, fear is painful and debilitating, and policy makers must endeavor to protect the public from fear, not only from real dangers.

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…entrepreneurs… dig into problems, untangle conflict, free people from the mind-sets or structures that hold them back, craft the pillars and policies of how the company functions.

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