Nine Lies about Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World Audiobook (Free)

Your organization’s tradition may be 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 appear to be simple truths of our function lives today. But actually, they’re is situated. As Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall present with this provocative, motivating book, there are some big lies-distortions, faulty assumptions, wrong thinking-running through our organizational lives.

But a couple of those who may about Nine Lies about Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to real life see through the lies and find out what’s real. These are freethinking leaders who recognize the energy and beauty of our specific uniqueness, who know that emergent patterns are more beneficial than received wisdom, and that evidence is stronger than dogma. With participating tales and incisive evaluation, the authors expose the essential truths that such freethinking market leaders will recognize instantly: that it is the strength and cohesiveness of the team, not your company’s culture, that counts most; that we need less focus on top-down preparing and even more on providing our people reliable, real-time cleverness; that rather than aiming to align people’s goals we should strive to align people’s feeling of purpose and meaning; that people don’t want constant feedback, they want helpful attention. This is the real life of work.