the slightly smaller rotunda

“Rowe notes that knowledge work seems obsessed with efficiency, while the skilled trades seem more concerned with effectively solving problems (c.f., his infamous TED talk on sheep castration).

The former can be dehumanizing, while the latter tends to be satisfying.”

Study Hacks >> Mike Rowe on Efficiency versus Effectiveness

“By focusing relentlessly on making specific tasks or operations easier and faster, instead of stepping back and trying to understand how to make an organization as a whole maximally effective, we’ve ended with a knowledge work culture in which people spend the vast majority of their time trying to keep up with the very inboxes, devices and channels that were conceived for the exact opposite purpose — to liberate more time for more valuable efforts”

Study Hacks >> Mike Rowe on Efficiency vs Effectiveness

“There’s no doubt that I am who I am today because I work in this business.”

Opinion: For Women in Advertising, the Promise of Personal and Professional Parity Has Become Toxic
http://www.adweek.com/agencies/opinion-for-women-in-advertising-the-promise-of-personal-and-professional-parity-has-become-toxic/

“This is hardly a brand new insight – but then, as Pirsig liked to point out, looking for new insights can be a fool’s errand; what you want are the ones that make a difference”

Putting off the important things? It’s not for the reasons you think
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/may/19/putting-off-important-things-not-reasons-think

““If you work for yourself, the main reason you’re successful isn’t because you respond quickly to others but because you’re good at directing yourself.””

The Importance Trap
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“I was raised to believe I could change the world. I’m desperate for you to show me that the work we do here matters, even just a little bit. I’ll make copies, I’ll fetch coffee, I’ll do the grunt work. But I’m not doing it to help you get a new Mercedes.

I’ll give you everything I’ve got, but I need to know it makes a difference to something bigger than your bottom line.”

Why Millennials Keep Dumping You: An Open Letter to Management
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-millennials-keep-dumping-you-open-letter-lisa-earle-mcleod

“Clifton says decision makers at the top of the food chain spend billions of dollars every year on everything but hiring the right managers. He writes, “They’ll buy miserable employees latte machines for their offices, give them free lunch and sodas, or even worse – just let them all work at home, hailing an ‘enlightened’ policy of telecommuting."”

Why Do People Quit Their Jobs, Exactly? Here’s the Entire Reason, Summed Up in 1 Sentence
https://www.inc.com/marcel-schwantes/why-do-people-really-quit-their-jobs-heres-the-entire-reason-summed-up-in-1-sent.html

“The single biggest decision you make in your job – bigger than all the rest – is who you name manager. When you name the wrong person manager, nothing fixes that bad decision. Not compensation, not benefits – nothing.”

Why Do People Quit Their Jobs, Exactly? Here’s the Entire Reason, Summed Up in 1 Sentence
https://www.inc.com/marcel-schwantes/why-do-people-really-quit-their-jobs-heres-the-entire-reason-summed-up-in-1-sent.html

“Acquiring wisdom is a moral duty as well as a practical one.

And there’s a corollary to that proposition which is very important. It means that you’re hooked for lifetime learning, and without lifetime learning you people are not going to do very well. You are not going to get very far in life based on what you already know. You’re going to advance in life by what you’re going to learn after you leave here…if civilization can progress only when it invents the method of invention, you can progress only when you learn the method of learning.”

The Munger Operating System: A Life That Really Works
https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2016/04/munger-operating-system/

“That means untangling them from our identity. If an idea is wrong, it says nothing about us as a person. It just didn’t work as an idea.
As Keynes was reputed to have said, “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?””

Fwd: [Learning Community] Take the Ego out of Ideas

“your perception of your organization’s commitment to its people is correlated with your position in that organization.

The higher up you are, the better your workplace seems (not just for you, but for everyone else, too).”

Your tail is rotting
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“and from staying patiently with what others experience to be contradictions, tensions and trade-offs.”

The Education of a Strategist – On Human Enterprise – Medium
https://medium.com/on-human-enterprise/the-education-of-a-strategist-463c337743a9

“The primary advantage of thought leadership is not, as many observers believe, the elevated status of the sharer, but rather that it attracts conversations from a nascent community. Which, in turn, makes the work of staying at the forefront of that domain that much easier. A community amplifies effort.”

The Art of Sharing - EPIC
https://www.epicpeople.org/the-art-of-sharing/