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“Not everyone in an organization is in a position to accumulate power through competent performance because most people are just carrying out the ordinary and the expected - even if they do it very well. The extent to which a job is routinized fails to give an advantage to anyone doing it because 'success' is seen as inherent in the very establishment of the position and the organization surrounding it. Neither persons nor organizations get 'credit' for doing the mandatory or the expected.”

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Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“When you're 'recruiting' people in temporary positions for the firm (short-term contracts, free-lancers, etc.) treat them well: remember, they're the only ones who actually do any work.”

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Book:Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay

Source: Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay

“In the biggest companies, seek out the most useless positions: those in consultancy, appraisal, research, and study. The more useless your position, the less possible it will be to assess your 'contribution to the firm's assets.”

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Book:Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay

Source: Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay

“Never, under any circumstances, accept a position of responsibility. You will be forced to work harder with no other benefits than a few extra bucks - 'peanuts,' as they say, if that.”

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Book:Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay

Source: Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay

“Whether you're moving to a new company or a new department within your current organization, I believe you'll end up miles ahead if you shop for a boss, not a position. You may secure the greatest job in the world, but a miserable boss will turn gold into ashes. ... In many ways, your boss may be more important than the job.”

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Author:Pat Heim

“Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.”

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Author:A. C. Benson

“It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.”

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Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.”

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Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.”

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Author:Adlai E. Stevenson

“We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.”

Inspiration Work Talent Position Calling Capacity Missions Talent And Passion

Author:Abraham Maslow

“Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.”

Important Success Work Position Likes Songwriting

Author:Sarah Caldwell