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“The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following instructions, meeting spec, and being managed.
Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.
The job might be difficult, it might require skill, but it's a job.
Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
I call the process of doing your art 'the work.' It's possible to have a job and do the work, too. In fact, that's how you become a linchpin.
The job is not the work.”
― Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.
The job might be difficult, it might require skill, but it's a job.
Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
I call the process of doing your art 'the work.' It's possible to have a job and do the work, too. In fact, that's how you become a linchpin.
The job is not the work.”
― Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
“When you work on something that only has the capacity to make you 5 dollars, it does not matter how much harder you work – the most you will make is 5 dollars.”
― Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
― Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
“Lamb said, ‘If you had issues with him, I could have spoken to HR. Arranged an intervention.’ He tapped Moody’s shoulder with his foot. ‘Breaking his neck without going through your line manager, that shit stays on your record.”
― Slow Horses
― Slow Horses
“While complying can be an effective strategy
for physical survival, it's a lousy one for personal fulfillment. Living a satisfying life requires more than simply meeting the demands of those in
control. Yet in our offices and our classrooms we have way too much compliance and way too little engagement. The former might get you
through the day, but only the latter will get you through the night.”
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for physical survival, it's a lousy one for personal fulfillment. Living a satisfying life requires more than simply meeting the demands of those in
control. Yet in our offices and our classrooms we have way too much compliance and way too little engagement. The former might get you
through the day, but only the latter will get you through the night.”
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“...workplace dynamics are no less complicated or unexpectedly intense than family relations, with only the added difficulty that whereas families are at least well-recognised and sanctioned loci for hysteria reminiscent of scenes from Medea, office life typically proceeds behind a mask of shallow cheerfulness, leaving workers grievously unprepared to handle the fury and sadness continually aroused by their colleagues.”
― The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
― The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
“I can always tell about the health of a culture of an organization by how much gossiping is happening”
― The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connections and Courage
― The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connections and Courage
“She had been a career woman all her life. She noted there was no such thing as a career man. She had made her choices. No regrets. But there were losses. There always were.”
― The Gap of Time
― The Gap of Time
“A lot of people work to earn. And, while at it, they forget to learn.”
― Night of a Thousand Thoughts
― Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“If you arrive at your workplace having already practiced mindfulness while getting ready at home and while on your way, you'll arrive happier and more relaxed than you have in the past, and successful communication will come a lot more easily.”
― The Art of Communicating
― The Art of Communicating
“We are creating a world in which what nourishes the soul rarely makes people employable, and what makes them employable often crushes the soul. A nourished mind and soul are the core of what makes us human, and we really can’t continue to ignore our minds and souls with impunity.”
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“I hated supervising because the workplace is filled with slackers! If you follow the management team’s direction to get the work rate up, they complain about you! The workplace ends up being a toxic mess!”
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“At the heart of Lean management is giving employees the necessary time and resources to improve their own work. This means creating a work environment that supports experimentation, failure, and learning, and allows employees to make decisions that affect their jobs. This also means creating space for employees to do new, creative, value-add work during the work week—and not just expecting them to devote extra time after hours.”
― Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
― Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
“When you’re young and you imagine your future, you don’t picture a short man wearing gladiator sandals and gripping a whistle forcing you to run around a meeting room to stay employed.”
― You Should Smile More
― You Should Smile More
“The boss walks in
Papers shuffle, phone notifications
Try their best to silence.
The time now is 10:57am.
He talks to the clerk about the climate
Of work culture.
There's not enough training,
Not enough bodies filling the spaces.
She replies in agreement
Passing her work off to him.
Soon he realizes.
Phone notifications continue to go off.
A sip of coffee is taken.
The time now is 11:01 am.
He hands in his resignation
In search of a new department.
I am but a fly on the wall
Searching for a way out”
― The Memorandum: An Ode to The Workplace or Something like That Short Poems & Stories about the Workplace
Papers shuffle, phone notifications
Try their best to silence.
The time now is 10:57am.
He talks to the clerk about the climate
Of work culture.
There's not enough training,
Not enough bodies filling the spaces.
She replies in agreement
Passing her work off to him.
Soon he realizes.
Phone notifications continue to go off.
A sip of coffee is taken.
The time now is 11:01 am.
He hands in his resignation
In search of a new department.
I am but a fly on the wall
Searching for a way out”
― The Memorandum: An Ode to The Workplace or Something like That Short Poems & Stories about the Workplace
“Workplace cheaters do not advertise their home partner, they advertise being single and available in their workplace office.”
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“A human being in a highly technicized productive unit is simply not allowed to be spontaneous. It just interferes with the plan laid down in advance by the engineers and technicians who decide how he should word, and in this way he, the human being, is profoundly diminished, because he is not permitted to be spontaneous.”
― Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics & the Visionary Experience
― Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics & the Visionary Experience
“A human being in a highly technicized productive unit is simply not allowed to be spontaneous. It just interferes with the plan laid down in advance by the engineers and technicians who decide how he should work, and in this way he, the human being, is profoundly diminished, because he is not permitted to be spontaneous.”
― Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics & the Visionary Experience
― Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics & the Visionary Experience
“Work hard, my friend, so you could afford some dignity! Work hard, not to be rich, but to be self-sufficient, so that you could refuse a well-paid job on moral grounds.”
― Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
― Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“It would be fascinating — though probably impossible — to write a history of books, designs, plans, and documents attributed to famous men that were actually written by their secretaries.”
― Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
― Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
“Every role is essential. But not equal. At the end of the day, everyone knows who gets the most credit.”
― Off the Air
― Off the Air
“I felt I had the right to not be a trustworthy person. It was good to make that clear, even if it worked against my professional future; from now on you should be aware that assigning me a job includes the possibility that I’ll quit halfway through. That was more or less how I put it. It was the closest I would come in this business to an outburst of dignity.”
― La encomienda
― La encomienda
“Det er en farlig ting for en organisation at være usikker på, hvilke af genstandene i dens varetægt kan betragtes som levende.”
― The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
― The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
“...small talk with their Range Rover-driving, Cartier-watch-wearing wives insisted on telling her about their charity work. Not even consuming the equivalent of two bottles of Moet made it any more bearable. She needed something stronger.
Like Rohypnol, she thought...”
― Calling Romeo
Like Rohypnol, she thought...”
― Calling Romeo
“The “ideology of Taylorism all but ensured a workplace divided against itself, both in space and in practice, with a group of managers controlling how work was done and their workers merely performing that work,” he writes. “It became increasingly clear . . . from the distance between the top and the bottom rungs of the ‘ladder,’ that some workers were never going to join the upper layers of management. For some, work was always, frankly, going to suck.”
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“With the barriers between home and work life increasingly fragile, and with the new electronic technology putting increasingly great stress on workers’ physical and mental health, protection of workers’ private time is of increasing importance.”
― Work Less: New Strategies for a Changing Workplace
― Work Less: New Strategies for a Changing Workplace
“Although I was also aware that in a workplace context, people could become bad sorts as and when the situation required, so maybe it was more accurate to say he wasn't always a bad sort.”
― There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job
― There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job
“People often tell me, "your not a manager, its not your job, don't do it." Or "Stay within your pay grade".
There are leaders who don't create impact however there are individuals that do. Your role does not add value to your team if you dont create impact, use your influence or shape culture.
Titles create weight on paper, but your influence creates weight over people. People first, position second.”
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There are leaders who don't create impact however there are individuals that do. Your role does not add value to your team if you dont create impact, use your influence or shape culture.
Titles create weight on paper, but your influence creates weight over people. People first, position second.”
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“Despite all the advancements in race, gender, and other diversity causes in the workplace, deeply ingrained stereotypes persisted, and the underbelly of office politics often remained just as filthy as before.”
― Tell Me Your Plans: A riveting novel of love and ambition
― Tell Me Your Plans: A riveting novel of love and ambition
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