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Change and innovation are the cornerstones of dynamic and modern
business.
Or so we are told.
Whether it’s a merger or re-org; a new process, policy, or IT
“solution”; or reconfiguring the office layout, change has become the
ultimate easy button for leaders, who pursue it with abandon and
thereby unleash an endless torrent of disruption on employees. The
result is life in the blender: a perpetual state of upheaval,
uncertainty, and unease.
Yes, companies need to grow, innovate, and adapt to changing needs. But
stressed-out employees rarely go the extra mile, chaos rarely produces
agility or speed, and it’s hard innovate or grow while bleeding talent
to turnover and quiet quitting. This is how change stymies the very
progress that it seeks.
Drawing on decades spent leading HR operations at Deloitte and Cisco,
Ashley Goodall explores the essential nature of human performance and
offers a radical new alternative to the constant turbulence that
defines corporate life. By prioritizing team cohesion (instead of
reshuffling teams at will), by communicating in real words (rather than
corporate speak), by striving for predictability (instead of charisma),
by honoring shared rituals (instead of corporately-mandated bonding),
by fixing only the things that are truly broken (instead of moving fast
and breaking everything in sight) and more, leaders at every level can
create environments that allow people to do the best work of their
lives.
How do you get to what's real? Your organisation's culture is the
key to its success. Strategic planning is essential. People's
competencies should be measured and their weaknesses shored up.
People crave feedback. These may sound like basic truths of our
work lives today. But actually, they're lies. As strengths guru and
bestselling author Marcus Buckingham and Cisco Leadership and Team
Intelligence head Ashley Goodall show in this provocative,
inspiring book, there are some big lies - distortions, faulty
assumptions, wrong thinking - running through our organisational
lives. Nine lies, to be exact. They cause dysfunction and
frustration and ultimately result in a strange feeling of unreality
that pervades our workplaces. But there are those who can get past
the lies and discover what's real. These are freethinking leaders
who recognise the power and beauty of our individual uniqueness,
who know that emergent patterns are more valuable than received
wisdom, and that evidence is more powerful than dogma. With
engaging stories and incisive analysis, the authors reveal the
essential truths that such freethinking leaders will recognise
immediately: that it is the strength and cohesiveness of your team,
not your company's culture, that matters most; that we need less
focus on top-down planning and more on giving our people reliable,
real-time intelligence; that rather than trying to align people's
goals we should strive to align people's sense of purpose and
meaning; that people don't want constant feedback, they want
helpful attention. This is the real world of work. If you embrace
each person's uniqueness and see this as key for all healthy
organisations; if you reject dogma and engage with the real world;
if you seek out emergent patterns and put your faith in evidence,
not philosophy; if you thrill to the power of teams - if you do all
of these, then you are a freethinking leader, and this book is for
you.
Forget what you know about the world of work You crave feedback.
Your organization's culture is the key to its success. Strategic
planning is essential. Your competencies should be measured and
your weaknesses shored up. Leadership is a thing. These may sound
like basic truths of our work lives today. But actually, they're
lies. As strengths guru and bestselling author Marcus Buckingham
and Cisco Leadership and Team Intelligence head Ashley Goodall show
in this provocative, inspiring book, there are some big
lies--distortions, faulty assumptions, wrong thinking--that we
encounter every time we show up for work. Nine lies, to be exact.
They cause dysfunction and frustration, ultimately resulting in
workplaces that are a pale shadow of what they could be. But there
are those who can get past the lies and discover what's real. These
freethinking leaders recognize the power and beauty of our
individual uniqueness. They know that emergent patterns are more
valuable than received wisdom and that evidence is more powerful
than dogma. With engaging stories and incisive analysis, the
authors reveal the essential truths that such freethinking leaders
will recognize immediately: that it is the strength and
cohesiveness of your team, not your company's culture, that matter
most; that we should focus less on top-down planning and more on
giving our people reliable, real-time intelligence; that rather
than trying to align people's goals we should strive to align
people's sense of purpose and meaning; that people don't want
constant feedback, they want helpful attention. This is the real
world of work, as it is and as it should be. Nine Lies About Work
reveals the few core truths that will help you show just how good
you are to those who truly rely on you.
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