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 tell 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.
