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The best approach to hiring is to put just enough structure in place to ensure a measure of consistency and adherence to core values – and no more.
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There’s great advantage for those organizations willing to end the reign of unstructured workflow and replace it with something designed from scratch with the specific goal of maximizing value production and employee satisfaction.
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…there are few things more valuable than someone who consistently produces valuable output…
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If you design workflows that allow knowledge workers to spend most of their time focusing without distraction… you’ll produce much more total value…
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…once you have made yourself valuable to your organization, you should use this career capital as leverage to remake your position into something more satisfying.
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When you allow specialists to work with more focus, they produce more, and this extra value can more than compensate for the cost of maintaining dedicated support.
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Humans seldom have created anything of lasting value unless they were tired or hurting.
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…how one honors situations when things turn sour or when a deal ends up being more costly than originally thought is how one defines his or her personal values.
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In good times and in bad, our values insist we act graciously and generously.
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Values aren’t to be conveniently molded to fit particular situations. They are indelibly etched in our very beings as natural impulses that never go stale…
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