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Daniel H. Pink: How to Use Regret (EP.246)

The Rational Reminder Podcast

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The Future of Autonomy

I think that on the question of autonomy, I'll go back to an even earlier book that I wrote 20 years ago called Free Agent Nation. Allowing people that kind of autonomy worked out fine. It worked out well. That is a very difficult egg to unscramble. And so I feel like the pandemic has made some of many organizations say, listen, you should just start with autonomy. The idea that the only way I'm going to do good work is if you control me or you actually see me in the office for white-collar workers is absurd. We're all in this together and we're doing something that matters when all of your colleagues are postage-stamped-

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