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If you want to work with more Type I's, the best strategy is to become one yourself. Autonomy, it turns out, can be contagious.

People working in self-organized teams are more satisfied than those working in inherited teams.

What Zappos is doing is part of a small but growing move to restore some mesure of individual freedom in jobs usually known for the lack of it

Without sovereignty over our time, it's nearly impossible to have autonomy over our lives.

Salaried employees can take as much time off as they'd like, whenever they want to take it, so long as their work is covered.

Those men and women to whom we delegate authority and responsibility, if they are good people, are going to want to do their jobs in their own way

Type I behavior emerges when people have autonomy over the four T's: their task, their time, their technique and their team.

Autonomy over four aspects of work: ehat people do, when they do it, how they do it, and whom they do it with.

Management isn't about walking around and seeing if people are in their offices.
It's about creating conditions for people to do their best work.

Management isn't about walking around and seeing if people are in their offices. It's about creating conditions for people to do their best work