Quotes

Empowered, Page 032

…leaders are essentially managing a portfolio of potential risk and reward.

Good Work, Page 032

Divided economic control results in split loyalties, and the old rules no longer apply.

Deep Work, Page 32

If you can’t produce, you won’t thrive – no matter how skilled or talented you are.

How Big Things Get Done, Page 032

For us to be so consistently wrong, we must consistently ignore experience. And we do, for various reasons.

Overwhelmed, Page 32

…research finds that the amount of housework a woman does depends to a great degree on her own earnings. The more a woman makes, the less housework she does.

Drive, Page 32

…it’s hard to reconcile with much of what we actually do at work – because for growing numbers of people, work is often creative, interesting, and self-directed rather than unrelentingly routine, boring, and other-directed.

Seductive Interaction Design, Page 032

…we ignore the evidence that beauty is much more than decoration. Our brains can’t help but agree.

Why Managers Matter, Page 032

…the kernel of truth in the bossless company narrative is that sometimes peer organization and peer monitoring beats supervision by middle managers.

Management, Page 032

The perpetuation of a business is a central entrepreneurial task – and ability to do so may well be the most definitive test of a management.

Denial, Page 032

Even in today’s multitasking world, paying attention to everything is impossible, so we are constantly making unconscious choices about what to notice.