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Why Giving Up Control at Work Can Improve Your Emotional Health

The Anxious Achiever

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The Social Contract of a Traditional Business

I really want to focus also on the themes of autonomy and agency versus you actually said most people work in a dictatorship. And I thought, Oh my God, that's a pretty, what does he mean by that? But it seems like we're kind of in a war for our souls, knowledge workers where we spend all this time learning and becoming good at what we do. In one system, you don't have any voice in those things until you take power. And in another system, everyone has a voice. It's not as if it's impossible to do, but it is a real commitment from the power holders to say, we're going to play a different kind of game here

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