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Book cover for Radical Candor: How to Get What You Want by Saying What You Mean
In an effort to create a positive, stress-free environment, I sidestepped the difficult but necessary part of being a boss: telling people clearly and directly when their work wasn’t good enough. I failed to create a climate in which people ...more
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“You have the right to control your time. You have the right to eat when you’re hungry and sleep when you’re tired. It’s that simple. Yes, your company is providing you with a paycheck and possibly other benefits. Yes, they are giving you a job, and, in some cases, a career. For that you absolutely, positively owe them hard work, focus, and dedication. More important, you owe them real, measurable results. But if you’re delivering those results, and your company is benefiting, then there is no reason why they should have the right to make you sit in a cubicle from eight to five. You owe them your work; you do not owe them your time. You do not owe them your life.”
― Cali Ressler, Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It: The Results-Only Revolution

“The funny thing about work is that every day most of us go to a physical space to do virtual work.”
― Cali Ressler, Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It: The Results-Only Revolution

“In a ROWE, work isn’t a place you go—it’s something you do. The work going on in your brain can happen no matter where your brain is. When individuals and organizations embrace this idea, it frees people up to do their best work.”
― Cali Ressler, Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It: The Results-Only Revolution

“In the past you may have been able to depend upon an organisation to plan and support your development, but in today’s fast-moving, ever-changing and far less secure world it would be irresponsible not to recognise that your development, career and life plans are your responsibility, and yours alone.”
― Mike Brent, Leader's Guide to Managing People, The: How to Use Soft Skills to Get Hard Results

“When products and services are similar, competitive advantage comes from having people with ideas, skills, responsibility and initiative.”
― Mike Brent, Leader's Guide to Managing People, The: How to Use Soft Skills to Get Hard Results

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