"I think the post-generational society is a huge opportunity for companies – if they are willing to get rid of some of their assumptions: For example, that younger people bring in new skills and, therefore, a company is better off if it has a younger labor force. That can be true, but we shouldn't forget about some of the benefits of age diversity."
"I think if you look back over the last 1,000 years, very few societies have been well set up for automatic shared prosperity. I think it's always a fight — it’s always a discussion."
"Abstraction is the enemy. You get too far away from how life is lived. And the place I found where that is the most extreme is in executive suites."
"We spend a lot of time thinking about the ideas we want to communicate, but we think a lot less about the specific words we use to express those ideas – and that's a mistake, because subtle shifts in the language that we use can actually have a big effect on our impact."
"The first component of the good jobs system is investment in people, but the secret sauce are the four operational choices that make employees work better. […] Focus and simplify, standardize and empower, cross-train, and operate with slack.”
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