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Individual task boards can significantly improve the quality of your life as a knowledge worker, but only if invest sufficient time in their upkeep.
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168 |
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Short, structured check-ins can be empowering.
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212 |
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You must… become accountable for what you produce if you want the freedom to improve how you do so.
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234 |
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Most knowledge workers are so entangled in obligations and commitments and legacy methods of getting things done that there’s often no easy way to reduce this load in one bold move.
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238 |
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…we have the potential to make these [knowledge work] efforts not only massively more productive, but also massively more fulfilling and sustainable.
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261 |
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Dreams and aspirations are good things… But investing time and energy to motivate ourselves – or other people – toward an abstraction is the wrong move.
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49 |
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You can only achieve aspirations and outcomes over time if you execute the right specific behaviors.
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51 |
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Taking the first step, no matter how small, can generate a sense of momentum that our brains love.
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93 |
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Reprove faults in a way that keeps intact self-confidence and commitment to do better.
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59 |
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Effective, respected leadership is maintained through mutual agreement. Leadership demanded is leadership denied.
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