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If the only reason people are coming in and doing anything in your office is because you're giving them a paycheck, I'm not sure you have the most productive workplace there.

~Dan Pink

Topics: Anything Because Coming Doing Giving Most Office Only Paycheck People Productive Reason Sure Them Workplace You Your

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People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.

~Dan Pink

Topics: Fault How Know Learn Listen Nobody People Read School Teaches Write You

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Selling is helping people to do what they're already inclined to do.

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Topics: Helping Helping People Inclined People Selling

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All of us can expect to live longer than any organization that we would work for. That continues apace. Human longevity is increasing; corporate longevity is decreasing.

~Dan Pink

Topics: Any Corporate Expect Human Increasing Live Longer Longevity Organization Than Us Work Would

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If you think about work, it's just this endlessly fascinating subject. We spend at least half of our waking hours working. So it becomes this incredible window into a whole variety of things: who we are human beings, how the economy works, how people relate to each other, how stuff is made, how the world spins on its axis.

~Dan Pink

Topics: About Axis Becomes Beings Each Economy Endlessly Fascinating Half Hours How Human Human Beings Incredible Just Least Made Other Our People Relate Spend Stuff Subject Things Think Variety Waking Who Whole Window Work Working Works World You

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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.

~Dan Pink

Topics: Agent Along Better Bit Book Day Despair Different Each Each Day Feelings Figured Figuring Free How Incremental Kind Laborious Little Little Bit Nation Now Out Process Progress Remains Self-Loathing Slow Sort Think Tiny Write Writing I Think

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One of the things is, in the writing process, if you do it enough, you have a sense of where you are. I didn't have that with the first book as I was writing it. Now, as I write books, I have a sense of where I am. Unfortunately, the sense of where I am is usually behind.

~Dan Pink

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I'm not a huge fan of the concept of 'passion' when it comes to careers. Instead of trying to answer the daunting question of, 'What's your passion?' it's better simply to watch what you do when you've got time of your own and nobody's looking.

~Dan Pink

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For creative tasks, the best approach is often just to hire great people and get out of their way.

~Dan Pink

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To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.

~Dan Pink

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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