Beyond Measure: The Big Impact of Small Changes Audiobook (Free)

A powerful manifesto for CEOs and workers alike: Influential and award-winning business head Margaret Heffernan reveals how organizations can build ideal workplace cultures and create seismic shifts by making deceptively small adjustments.

By implementing sweeping changes, businesses often think it’s possible to do better, to earn much more, and have happier employees. So why does engagement demonstrate so difficult and productivity so elusive?

In Beyond Measure, Margaret Heffernan looks back over her about Beyond Measure: THE BEST Impact of Small Changes decades spent overseeing different agencies and comes to a counterintuitive summary: it’s the small shifts that have the greatest influence. Heffernan argues that building the strongest organization can be accelerated by implementing seemingly small adjustments, such as for example embracing conflict like a creative catalyst; using every brain on the group; celebrating errors; speaking up and hearing more; and encouraging time off from work.

Packed with incredible anecdotes and startling statistics, Beyond Measure requires us on a remarkable tour across the globe, highlighting disparate businesses and uncovering how they’ve managed to alter themselves in big ways through incremental shifts. How do the CIA revolutionize their cleverness gathering with one particular question? How did one organization boost their income by $15 million by instituting a brief coffee break? How can a day-long hackathon modification the culture of a firm? Told with wry wit and understanding humor, Heffernan proves that it’s often the little changes that produce the best, most lasting effect.