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Reward can deliver a short-term boost - just as a jolt of caffeine can keep you craking for s few more hours. But the effect wears off- and , worse, can reduce a person's longer-term motivation to continue th ñe project.
— May 26, 2026 11:01PM
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Carlos Favila
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If you want to work with more Type I's, the best strategy is to become one yourself. Autonomy, it turns out, can be contagious.
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Carlos Favila
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People working in self-organized teams are more satisfied than those working in inherited teams.
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What Zappos is doing is part of a small but growing move to restore some mesure of individual freedom in jobs usually known for the lack of it
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Carlos Favila
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Without sovereignty over our time, it's nearly impossible to have autonomy over our lives.
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Carlos Favila
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We should focus on what people get done, not how many hours or days worked.
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Salaried employees can take as much time off as they'd like, whenever they want to take it, so long as their work is covered.
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Carlos Favila
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Those men and women to whom we delegate authority and responsibility, if they are good people, are going to want to do their jobs in their own way
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Carlos Favila
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Type I behavior emerges when people have autonomy over the four T's: their task, their time, their technique and their team.
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Carlos Favila
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Autonomy over four aspects of work: ehat people do, when they do it, how they do it, and whom they do it with.
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Carlos Favila
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Management isn't about walking around and seeing if people are in their offices.
It's about creating conditions for people to do their best work.
— Jul 13, 2026 09:20AM
It's about creating conditions for people to do their best work.