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This is what prosperity is: the increase in the amount of goods or services you can earn with the same amount of work.

The Rational Optimist

Matt Ridley

It’s only when we take away the lenses of competition and winning and losing that we can begin to correct and change ourselves.

The Courage to Be Disliked

Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga

High-motivation cultures, they concluded, rely on a mix of two elements. Catalysts, defined as “actions that support work,” sound much like OKRs: “They include setting clear goals, allowing autonomy, providing sufficient resources and time, helping with the work, openly learning from problems and successes, and allowing a free exchange of ideas.” Nourishers—“acts of interpersonal support”—bear a striking resemblance to CFRs: “respect and recognition, encouragement, emotional comfort, and opportunities for affiliation.”

Measure What Matters

John Doerr

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