Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More
Tie yourself to the mast: Set clear rules ahead of time to fend off temptation and distraction.
Morten T. Hansen • Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More
employees have trouble committing to a decision when they perceive the process as unfair.
Morten T. Hansen • Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More
Make fights about ideas, not people.
Morten T. Hansen • Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More
top performers took a different approach: they strove to find roles that contributed value to the organization and society, and then matched passion with that sense of purpose. The matching of passion and purpose, and not passion alone, produced the best results.
Morten T. Hansen • Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More
third technique that forceful champions use to inspire people: connecting daily work to a broader purpose.
Morten T. Hansen • Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More
their performance incentives didn’t align with the collaboration project.
Morten T. Hansen • Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More
“Sometimes I’ll talk to folks in advance of a meeting, saying ‘Hey we’re going to have this meeting, I know you have a particular viewpoint, I think it’s very important that it gets heard, I’d like to make sure you share it with the group.’ ”