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Starting in the 1990s, however, a lot of the activity that began dominating the attention of knowledge workers like Mann wasn’t the execution of discrete tasks, but instead interactions with others about these tasks. The introduction of personal computers, followed soon after by electronic communication tools like email, transformed office
... See moreCal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Back at last to seeing. Highest ranking of the senses: Greek scale of priority. He turned the silver triangle each and every way; he viewed it from every extra rem standpoint.
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
rapacious
Michael Crichton • Jurassic Park: A Novel
Once each month, managers meet with their reports to discuss individual goals. The system has built-in, 360-degree feedback, with both parties comparing notes on a regular basis.
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
“Institute leadership. The aim of supervision should be to help people and machines and gadgets to do a better job. Supervision of management is in need of overhaul, as well as supervision of production workers.”
John Willis • Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future
Michael Brooks
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“What profit it a man if he gain the whole world but in this enterprise lose his soul?”’ The radio paused, Frink, tying his tie, also paused.
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
pragmatist.
Haruki Murakami • Kafka on the Shore
At the start, the situation had been complicated by the fact that the so-called Cloak and Dagger boys, under the control of a mysterious Colonel Grand and the Foreign Office, were involved in this adventure. But it had now been decided that they should break away from the War Office and go off on their own. This left Colonel Holland with a
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