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The opposite of job dissatisfaction isn’t job satisfaction, but rather an absence of job dissatisfaction.
I concluded, if you want to help other people, be a manager. If done well, management is among the most noble of professions. You are in a position where you have eight or ten hours every day from every person who works for you. You have the opportunity to frame each person’s work so that, at the end of every day, your employees will go home feeling like Diana felt on her good day: living a life filled with motivators. I realized that if the theory of motivation applies to me, then I need to be sure that those who work for me have the motivators, too.
We should always remember that beyond a certain point, hygiene factors such as money, status, compensation, and job security are much more a by-product of being happy with a job rather than the cause of it.
The person you are at work and the amount of time you spend there will impact the person you are outside of work with your family and close friends.
high-achievers focus a great deal on becoming the person they want to be at work—and far too little on the person they want to be at home.
self-esteem comes from achieving something important when it’s hard to do.
Culture in any organization is formed through repetition.
Culture = organizational habit
Once it has been shown to work, they write it down and talk about it, as often as possible.
No other occupation offers more ways to help others learn and grow, take responsibility and be recognized for achievement, and contribute to the success of a team.
