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:

Workaholism is a contagious disease. You can’t stop the spread if you’re the one bringing it into the office.

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It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work:

The fact is that the higher you go in an organization, the less you’ll know what it’s really like. It might seem perverse, but the CEO is usually the last to know.

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It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work:

With great power comes great ignorance.

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It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work:

Very few problems need to be solved at the twelfth or fifteenth hour of a workday… Nearly everything can wait until morning.

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It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work:

No matter the group, every personnnel change changes the dynamics.

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It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work:

Great people who are eager to do great work come from the most unlikely places and looking nothing like what you might imagine.

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It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work:

The quickest way to disappointment is to set unreasonable expectations.

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It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work:

Most deadlines aren’t so much deadlines as dreadlines. Unrealistic dates mired by ever-expanding project requirements. More work piles on but the timeline remains the same. That’s not work, that’s hell.

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It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work:

All your best intentions about doing the right thing ‘later’ are no match for the power of habits.

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It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work:

Later is where excuses live. Later is where good intentions go to die. Later is a broken back and a bent spirit.

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