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One employee can’t bring a good manager down. But a bunch of employees can gang up and topple even the most productive bosses.
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Your people are changing constantly and it’s right in front of your eyes. If you don’t change accordingly, you may as well be managing with your eyes wide shut.
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For brainstorming to be successful, you have to suspend judgment and stay receptive to seemingly unrelated ideas – they may lead to something great.
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Stories have the power to win customers, align colleagues, and motivate employees.
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Engage with people like a skilled conversationalist, and they’ll engage more fully and fairly with your ideas.
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What connects a tribe is a common commitment to the thing they feel born to do. This can be extraordinarily liberating, especially if you’ve been pursuing your passion alone.
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…big trends in business today actively decrease people’s ability to perform deep work, even though the benefits… are arguably dwarfed by the benefits that flow from a commitment to 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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…without clear metrics… business behavior is vulnerable to unstable whim and shifting forces, and in this volatile scrum deep work has fared particularly poorly.
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…in the absence of metrics, most people fall back on what’s easiest.
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