Nine Lies about Work: A Freethinking Leader's Guide to the Real World
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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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The word lies in this book's title is eye-catching, but a more accurate word would be misconceptions. Buckingham (researcher, ADP Research Inst.; Win at Work) and Goodall (senior VP, leadership and team intelligence, Cisco) believe nine business practices in particular are well intentioned yet ineffective because they are not necessarily grounded in reality. For example, regarding rating employees, the common attempts to do so use abstract notions (e.g., "analyzes issues" or "fosters teamwork") that can neither be defined with any precision nor measured with any accuracy. The authors contend that the nine lies or misconceptions downplay the individuality and uniqueness of employees and don't boost their strengths, even though this would be a better way to achieve organizational goals. The authors do not simply evaluate and criticize widespread business practices but offer alternatives. For example, instead of rating employees, they suggest focusing on the rater's own reactions or attitudes toward the employee. Using case studies, they prove that this approach is humble, realistic, and pragmatic. VERDICT This groundbreaking and thought-provoking work will appeal to organizational and team leaders and those who aspire to such positions.—Shmuel Ben-Gad, Gelman Lib., George Washington Univ., Washington, DC (c) Copyright 2019. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Buckingham, M., & Goodall, A. (2019). Nine Lies about Work: A Freethinking Leader's Guide to the Real World (Unabridged). Ascent Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Buckingham, Marcus and Ashley Goodall. 2019. Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader's Guide to the Real World. Ascent Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Buckingham, Marcus and Ashley Goodall. Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader's Guide to the Real World Ascent Audio, 2019.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Buckingham, M. and Goodall, A. (2019). Nine lies about work: a freethinking leader's guide to the real world. Unabridged Ascent Audio.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Buckingham, Marcus, and Ashley Goodall. Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader's Guide to the Real World Unabridged, Ascent Audio, 2019.
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