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No time-management seminar is ever going to solve the problem of people not having control over their time… What people need is power.
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079 |
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And kind of adaptive change requires both self-adjustment and support. It’s like quitting smoking or getting in shape.
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091 |
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Management is part of the process, but management does not drive the process. The people create the new culture.
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091 |
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…part of the power of the status quo is that it doesn’t have to do anything to reinforce its attitudes.
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093 |
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Typical time management programs are asking you to make do with limited control, when the only solution is total control. These programs are asking you to find freedom within a prison.
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094 |
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Letting go of the clock can also be difficult because we’ve traditionally used time to measure fairness.
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096 |
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Socially acceptable excuses are the truths about our time that in a traditional work environment we dare not utter.
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100 |
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…many managers would rather have their employees in the building during traditional working hours doing nothing than out of their sight and being productive for their own lives.
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101 |
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…the rules of work have more to do with enforcing how work looks than actually getting work done.
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101 |
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Everything boils down to results and so managers have some control over what the results are going to be. But the employees don’t need to be controlled as much as they used to.
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112 |
