Book Titles

Overwhelmed
Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

By Brigid Schulte

Year Published: 2014
ISBN-13: 978-0-374-22844-6
Categories: Time

127 Quotes Found

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Overwhelmed:

…leaders don’t understand that what drives people to greater creativity and productivity is giving them autonomy, mastery, and a sense of purpose, not longer work hours and a smartphone…

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The saner twenty-first century workplace means total transformation.

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Change the routine… and you change the thinking. New ideas emerge.

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The best workplaces recognize that working in a new way requires learning new skills and not assuming people automatically just know how to work with flexibility.

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Change is hard. Our very human nature pulls us back to the status quo, not because it’s better, but because it’s familiar.

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The unspoken culture we operate in trumps any policy on the books or nice speech by the boss. We create culture by the stories we tell ourselves. And change gets a little easier when it’s visible.

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…millennials would rather be unemployed than stay in a job they hate…

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Too much cortisol can lead to a weakened immune system, anxiety, depression, obesity, and cardiovascular disease.

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…times and work have changed. Unlike manual laborers, knowledge workers have about six good hours of hard mental labor a day…

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The key [to remote work] is defining the mission… crafting the motivation 3.0 work environment… and establishing metrics to measure success and feedback loops to course-correct.

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