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Valuing people also means looking for any excuse to celebrate them – job accomplishments, birthdays, or life milestones like weddings or new babies.
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People will do something – including change their behavior – only if it can be demonstrated that doing so is in their own best interests as defined by their own values.
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…people only change their ways when what they truly value is threatened. It’s in our nature. It’s the law.
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Intentionally withholding information is the opposite of adding value. We are deleting value. Yet it has the same purpose: To gain power.
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Once you see the beauty of measuring the soft values in your life, other variables kick in, such as the fact that setting numerical targets makes you more likely to achieve them.
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…free agents must wrestle with the paradox that the economic value of their experience falls rather than rises in the course of a career.
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Deep Work: Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limits. These efforts create new value, improve your skill, and are hard to replicate.
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To remain valuable in our economy… you must master the art of quickly learning complicated things. This task requires deep work.
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…as knowledge work makes more complex demands of the labor force, it becomes harder to measure the value of an individual’s efforts.
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Knowledge workers… are trending toward increasingly visible busyness because they lack a better way to demonstrate their value.
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