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…screen time for American adults, not counting work on computers, can hit an astounding 8.5 hours a day, the most time sucking of any developed country in the world.
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240 |
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…research has found that when people have a sense of choice and control over what they do with their free time, they are more likely to get into flow, that engrossing and timeless state that some call peak human experience.
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249 |
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A final lesson in learning how to climb out of that ceaseless frenzy of the overwhelm… [is] learning how to master the ceaseless clutter of your own contaminated mind.
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274 |
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…the reality is that the problem is systemic and directly related to the limitations of hierarchy and basic managerial processes.
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9 |
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Hierarchies with great management processes and good leaders on top are not built for leaping into a creative future.
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15 |
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Management-driven hierarchies are built to minimize risk and keep people in their boxes and silos. To change this more than incrementally is to fight a losing battle.
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15 |
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The desire to work with others for an important and exciting purpose, and the realistic possibility of doing so, are key. They always have been.
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24 |
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Without management, chaos would reign. Enterprises would fall apart and go out of business quickly.
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60 |
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…management is not leadership. Leadership is about setting a direction. It’s about creating a vision, empowering and inspiring people to want to achieve the vision, and enabling them to do so…
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60 |
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Management ensures the stability and efficiency necessary to run today’s enterprise reliably. Leadership creates needed change to take advantage of new opportunities, to avoid serious threats, and to create and execute new strategies.
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