Nine Lies About Work
A Freethinking Leader's Guide to the Real World
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Narrated by:
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Marcus Buckingham
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Ashley Goodall
About this listen
Your organization'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 Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall show in this provocative, inspiring book, there are some big lies - distortions, faulty assumptions, wrong thinking - running through our organizational lives.
But there are those who can get past the lies and discover what's real. These are freethinking leaders who recognize 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 recognize 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.
©2019 One Thing Productions, Inc. and Ashley Goodall (P)2019 Gildan MediaWhat listeners say about Nine Lies About Work
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- Nosferatu
- 18-11-2019
in the lies lies the truth
Thoroughly thought provoking. Challenges many accepted practices of modern work. Asks us the think differently. Recommended reading.
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- Gerry Lynch
- 24-05-2019
fantastic book really enjoyed the practicality
great listen, very thought provoking and helped me to really think about my leadership and how I work with my team
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- Mike
- 15-03-2020
Very provocative - challenging
Really enjoyed the provocative, thought provoking nature of this book. Lots of challenging the established norms around things like performance ratings- great to think through how we can set broad objectives for our people to conquer the right mountains.
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- Anonymous User
- 19-11-2020
Very well written and great content
Brilliant read, very applicable to modern working conditions. If there were one thing that could be approved on, the tone of the narrators could have a big more variety. Think I fell asleep at the gym whilst listening to this at one point...
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- Andrew Hallahan
- 19-05-2019
Insightful and practical
Marcus and Ashley present a intriguing, challenging and highly practical view of work and what humans are looking for. While they deliberately take extreme positions to disrupt common myths their conclusions are well worth considering and applying. I will never view the 360 survey and many other things in the same way again!
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- Aron
- 11-03-2024
Excellent book for any leader!
Great book on work, leadership and people.
This book addresses relevant areas for any team and backs up each claim with strong analysis that allows you to understand the reasoning, strengths and limitations.
Can highly recommend it for any leader of any organisation.
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- Maron
- 08-12-2019
Sound quality is not good
Good opening, but the sound on the later chaps ar sometime loud and sometime quiet.
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