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…some mentors can move you away from your goals or even work against you. In that case, the mentors actually become ‘tormentors.’ – Dr. Joelle Jay

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…a highly iterative process… is worth the extraordinary work it entails…

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When something works, keep it. When it doesn’t, get rid of it. Try, learn, again. And again, And again, Let the plan evolve.

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When we go and see the work, we stop debating ideas and start discovering them.

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There are unmistakable areas for improvement… that we’ll never unlock unless we go and see the work.

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In knowledge work… pushing employees into larger workloads can decrease both the quantity and quality of what they produce.

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…the informal manner in which we manage our workloads ensures we always have dangerously too much to do.

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…overload is not fundamental to knowledge work. It’s instead largely a side effect of the crude ways in which we self-manage our work volume.

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If your professional life is top heavy, you’ll unavoidably face an onerous workload.

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There’s a calibrated steadiness to working on just one major initiative a day. Real progress accrues, while anxiety is subdued.

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