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1. US Army's Mission Command manual outlining 5 principles that are shared by commanders and top executives:

• Build cohesive teams through mutual trust
• Create shared understanding
• Provide a clear and concise set of expectations and goals
• Allow workers at all levels to exercise disciplined initiative: taking action in the absence of specific instructions when existing instructions no longer fit the situation, or unforeseen opportunities arise
• Accept prudent risks: the deliberate exposure to a negative outcome when the employee judges that the potential positive outcome is worth the cost

1. “There are no technical alternatives to personal responsibility and cooperation in the workplace.”

2. Area 47: contains prediction circuits that it uses in conjunction with memory to form projections about future states of events. If we can predict some aspects of how job will go, we find it rewarding. If we can predict all aspects of the job, down to the tiniest minutiae, it tends to be boring because there is nothing new and no opportunity to apply the discretion and judgement that management consultants and the US Army have justly identified as components to finding one's work meaningful and statisfying. If some but not too many aspects of the job are surprising in interesting ways, this can lead to a sense of discovery and self-growth.

Finding the right balance to keep Area 47 happy is tricky, but in most cases the trick lies in finding the right balance between the two: some contraints + some autonomy/creativity.

1. Locus of control: how people view their autonomy and agency in the world. Critically influence productivity.

• Internal locus of control: believe they are responsible for or at least in influence their own fates and life outcomes. Higher achievers. Take more responsibility for their own matters. Less conformity, more difficult to manage. Lose motivation to a job faster than externals since they are more sensitive to reinforcements.

• External locus of control: see themselves as relatively powerless. More compliant followers and subordinates. More prone to depression.

Locus of control appears to be a stable internal trait that is not significantly affected by experience.

Planning for failure. For instance, always keep things backed up: physical copies or in the cloud. Whatever that suits you. TXT may be a surprisingly good back-up option, because it's open-sourced and much more tenacious against corruption compared to fragile formats such as PDF and Word.