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:

When we remove the barrier between socially acceptable and socially unacceptable uses of time, then people have control over their lives.

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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:

Everyone deserves to work freely. When you eliminate work schedules altogether, then all employees are forced to make good decisions about how they spend their time…

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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:

…now you look at that person [who is quadrupled booked] and wonder what kind of value could they possibly be adding?

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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:

Everything boils down to results and so managers have some control over what the results are going to be. But the employees don’t need to be controlled as much as they used to.

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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:

In [the doomsayers’] minds, even if work sucks, they think that at least the status quo affords some measure of stability and control. Without that control a business descends into anarchy.

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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:

For the doomsayers, more employee freedom means less accomplishment. They can’t imagine anything getting done.

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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:

When you force people to be at a specific place at a specific time every single day, they’re not going to give their best.

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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:

Nothing stifles creativity and innovation like resentment.

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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:

The work going on in your brain can happen no matter where you brain is. When individuals and organizations embrace this idea, it frees people up to do their best work.

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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It:

Give people more freedom and they respond not with less focus but with more.

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