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When Empathy Leaves the Room | You're Not the Boss of Me

You're Not the Boss of Me

I was there for a week and my job was mundane enough to afford me the luxury of sitting, mostly unnoticed, as the Traders went about their jobs and interacted with each other. I think it is safe to say that we wouldn’t get too many arguments about that. But why is it important to go deeper you may ask? It was in the early seventies.

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What's Your Default?

Harvard Business Review

What individual, for that matter, lives up to her highest ideals or even her most mundane aspirations to eat well, exercise regularly, meet deadlines, with satisfying regularity? But it is precisely the thing that separates the best of us from the rest of us. Certainly too few.