Book Titles

It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work

By David Heinemeier Hansson, James Fried

Year Published: 2018
ISBN-13: 978-0062874788
Categories: Balance, Craziness, Work

42 Quotes Found

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It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work:

Stress never stops at the border of work… It bleeds into life. It infects your relationships with your friends, your family, your kids.

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It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work:

The modern workplace is sick. Chaos should not be the natural state at work.

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It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work:

The human experience is so much more than 24/7 hustle to the max.

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It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work:

…you hereby have our permission to bury the hustle. To put in a good day’s work, day after day, but nothing more.

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It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work:

…let’s face it: Goals are fake. Nearly all of them are artificial targets set for the sake of setting targets.

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It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work:

…why impose some arbitrary number to loom over your job, salary, bonus, and kid’s college fund?

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It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work:

The best information you’ll ever have about a decision is at the moment of execution.

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It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work:

If you can’t fit everything you want to do within 40 hours per week, you need to get better at picking what to do, not working longer hours.

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It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work:

Most of what we think we have to do, we don’t have to do at all. It’s a choice, and often a poor one.

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It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work:

…employees’ time and attention are among the scarcest resources we have.

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