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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:
Our beliefs about where and how work gets done distort how we evaluate work just as the power of time does.
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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:
Most of what we do is trade information and ideas (and often electronically). There isn’t the absolute need for us to congregate in offices.
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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:
The unwritten and unspoken rules that surround meetings are one of the big reasons why work sucks.
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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:
The game becomes looking busy instead of working hard and solving problems and contributing. It’s a game no one wins.
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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:
You lose your freedom, your motivation, your soul, and in exchange for control over your life, your company often gets little more than a show of work.
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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:
Part of growing up is learning what you can and cannot say to people, what is polite and what is rude. Strangely at work a lot of these rules don’t apply.
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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:
We have this weird permission to be shitty to one another at work.
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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:
Perception is reality. How many times have you heard the expression with regard to work? Maybe you’ve said it yourself or something like it.
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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:
When we judge one another… we’re championing a system that distracts us from what really matters (results) and focuses our energy on what doesn’t (time and place).
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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:
Seemingly innocent comments tell us everything about what a workplace values. We care more about time and the appearance of being dedicated and present than we do about actual performance.
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