Book Titles

Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It
The Results-Only Revolution

By Cali Ressler, Jody Thompson

Year Published: 2008
ISBN-13: 978-1-59184-203-3
Categories: Dysfunctional Teams, Management, Work

123 Quotes Found

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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:

You need to be remarkable to be treated like an adult.

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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:

…no matter how flexible a nontraditional schedule is it’s still a schedule. Flexible schedule is an oxymoron.

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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:

Ask yourself what needs to get done. If you’re focused on the results and achieving them then your time is your own.

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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:

This is the nature of adaptive change. You start with a desired goal, then work your way toward that goal, regardless of where that process might take you.

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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:

…typical corporate policy doesn’t ask people to challenge how they behave.

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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:

…changes in corporate America.. Are fake changes; they are the flavor of the month. They look good and sound good and they seem to be addressing the problem, but they aren’t and they don’t.

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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:

Trying to create technical change for what is a social problem is usually a disaster.

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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:

Adaptive change means that people’s underlying attitudes and beliefs change along with their behaviors.

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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:

No time-management seminar is ever going to solve the problem of people not having control over their time… What people need is power.

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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:

Adaptive change isn’t easy. While you’re going through this kind of change the future state is being discovered. You are moving into an unknown, even if it’s an intended unknown.

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