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THREE

AUTONOMY

Claim Your Personal Leadership

Control leads to compliance, autonomy to engagement.

Daniel Pink

Why Autonomy Is Important

Autonomy is the capacity to manage one’s own time within a domain of constraints. It is not unbridled freedom. Trust, specifically trusting people to manage themselves, with the interest both of others and the organization in mind, is the foundation of a horizontal culture. In fact, it is difficult to claim that employees are trusted at all if they are not allowed to make decisions about their own time and workflows. Most people don’t like to be controlled. They want to be able to make their own choices at work. ...

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