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Personal happiness is important. And how can you be happy in life if you are not happy at work?
Gene Stone • Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends
We live in an age where information is more important than seniority. In Silicon Valley, where I work, you get paid for what you know, not how long you’ve been around or where you went to college. That’s good for some, bad for others. Like it or not, it’s happening all across the country, in job after job.
Gene Stone • Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends
Not long ago, the sociologist Arlie Hochschild studied life at Amerco, an unusually worker-friendly Fortune 500 company. In her 1997 book The Time Bind, she reported that workers had grown so entranced with life in their workplace that they’d started avoiding their less well-tended-to personal lives. To maximize the time spent in the office or on t
... See moreJudith Shulevitz • The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time
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Joseph Michelli • The Zappos Experience: 5 Principles to Inspire, Engage, and WOW
Most of us want to work—but on our terms, in ways that make it possible to have a life as well.