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When any student writes me to ask a question, or request advice, or share their experience with one of my books, I can point them to my regular office hours and say, “Stop by or call anytime.” And they do. The result is that I’m much better connected to the student body at my university than I would be if I were still trying to arrange a custom-sch
... See moreCal Newport • Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
When Bill was CEO of Intuit, he met with all the engineering directors for lunch every Friday, where they’d spend a couple of hours over pizza talking about what they were doing and what was slowing them down.
Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle • Trillion Dollar Coach
If they can’t release their spare energies toward your goals, they’ll moonlight for somebody who doesn’t have job descriptions and policy manuals.
Robert C. Townsend • Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits (J-B Warren Bennis Series)
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Timothy Ferriss • Tools Of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

It’s for those who have the courage, the humor, and the energy to make a non-monster company, or a non-monster piece of a monster company, operate as if people were human.
Robert C. Townsend • Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits (J-B Warren Bennis Series)
“egomaniacal.”