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Having invested time or money in something, we are loath to leave it, because that would mean we had wasted our time or money, even though it is already gone.
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143 |
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Smart bosses spend less time on day-to-day supervision of employees an more time thinking about the key strategic issues…
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004 |
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Decentralization makes sense when its benefits outweigh the costs as they sometimes do – but not all the time!
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015 |
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…going bossless can lead to more meetings, more arguing, and less time spent working!
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111 |
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Distrust of the corporation – and more broadly, the company – goes back a long time.
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145 |
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…hierarchy isn’t as valuable where few interdependencies exist among people, resources, and tasks, uncertainty is low, and there is plenty of time to make decisions.
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170 |
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Like everything else associated with doing business, a company’s structure needs to change with the times as well as in response to unanticipated shocks.
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179 |
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When things move fast, the need to concentrate on what is going on in their environment gives people less time and energy to devote to organizational politics.
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261 |
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Putting in longer hours is almost always the wrong answer if you want to reach balance, happiness, or sustained high performance.
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186 |
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Turning adversity into a good time is one of life’s highest arts.
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232 |
