Quotes

Tribes, Page 099

You can always claim the career you deserve merely by refusing to walk down the same path as everyone else just because everyone else is already doing it.

Drive, Page 99

The billable hour is a relic… It makes some sense for routine tasks – And if your starting assumption is that workers’ default setting is to shirk.

Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It, Page 099

…the status quo makes us masters of the white lie. But there is something deeper going on here, something that gets back to the idea that your job owns your time.

The Progress Principle, Page 099

…as a manager, you must keep the progress loop in motion by continually facilitating progress and removing obstacles.

Management, Page 099

There will always be, one can assume, a need for some selling. But the aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous.

How Big Things Get Done, Page 099

…the root cause of why delivery fails often lies outside delivery, in forecasting, years before delivery was even begun.

The Quarter-Life Breakthrough, Page 099

Stop talking. Start doing.

The Badass Business Analyst, Page 099

It is perfectly natural for us to avoid difficult conversations.

168 Hours, Page 99

…try to establish a culture in which every meeting has a point, an agenda, an extremely limited time frame, an outcome, and a bias toward involving fewer people rather than more.

Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It, Page 099

If your job owns your time, then it is doing more than dictating how to use your time.