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Tipping Sacred Cows: Kick the Bad Work Habits that Masquerade as Virtues
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Tipping Sacred Cows: Kick the Bad Work Habits that Masquerade as Virtues

by Jake Breeden
March 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
224 pages
5h 28m
English
Jossey-Bass
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Chapter 9

Extinguish Your Backfires

Before you ever did anything, thought anything, or believed anything, you sensed something. Inside your mother's womb you started the lifelong work of making sense of the world. You've spent your entire life constructing meaning out of the details you perceive. At first, it's physical. As a baby you learned the response that crying would get. As a toddler you learned how it felt to bump your head on a corner.

As you became an adolescent you began to make fundamental choices about how to perceive the world. Is it hard work or luck that pays off? Is life fair? Is it better to stand out or fit in? As you became an adult and entered the workplace, you made choices about how to perceive the world of work. Are excellence ...

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