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The Value of Meaning in Work
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left, valuable, two, salvage, present, visionary, engineers, cancelled, own, demotivated, changed, demotivating, useful, maze
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talked to software company
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200                    in room
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had worked on project which was supposedly the next                    project for the company
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worked on it for        years
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a week before the CEO                    the project
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it was a                        group
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they reported that they began to come to work later, and go home earlier
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the CEO was seeing the workers as rats in a         
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made them run in this direction for two years
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it wasn't a good direction anymore
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simply                the direction
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many of these workers          the company after this experience
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asked them another question
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in what way could the CEO have cancelled this project in a way that would not be so                         
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ideas
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if he had allowed them to                the project in front of the whole company
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if he had allowed them to think about what aspects of this technology could be              for other projects
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these ideas would take time and money
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but they would                meaning that is alive in the employees and which motivates them
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Google allows employees to work 20% of their time on their        projects
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one purpose of this is to develop useful projects
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another purpose is to help make people feel                  and help maintain and nurture the meaning that they feel in the jobs
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