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timsormin's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
5.0
Should be essential reading for any employee, regardless of their level of leadership. Excellent insights that will help you rethink your approach to work and focus on what will really matter to you.
books_and_beth's review against another edition
4.25
A very real book about what it’s really like to work at a company, grow, and be a leader.
zoereads88's review against another edition
3.0
A few helpful thoughts. Could have all been said in half the space.
jpmaguire2's review against another edition
5.0
Any one of the chapters in this work could be it's own mind-blowing book. The author takes everything you think you know about work culture, organizational excellence, performance reviews, potential, meetings, workplace engagement, and leadership and uses current research done for international corporations to show that a vast amount of what you think you know about working at a company is wrong.
A lot of the ideas will feel intuitive after you read this book (and you should), but are completely the opposite of how we run companies almost across the board. I love books that challenge accepted wisdom, and this is the coup de gras of workforce acceptance-flips.
There is no such thing as a set of "leadership qualities," peers and managers and everyone is extremely poor at objective performance ratings, your company makes almost no difference to how happy you are at work, corporate plans don't work, feedback does more harm than good, etc etc. .
This book lines up common workplace accepted norms and rigorously shoots them down one by one. And it's such a joy.
A lot of the ideas will feel intuitive after you read this book (and you should), but are completely the opposite of how we run companies almost across the board. I love books that challenge accepted wisdom, and this is the coup de gras of workforce acceptance-flips.
There is no such thing as a set of "leadership qualities," peers and managers and everyone is extremely poor at objective performance ratings, your company makes almost no difference to how happy you are at work, corporate plans don't work, feedback does more harm than good, etc etc. .
This book lines up common workplace accepted norms and rigorously shoots them down one by one. And it's such a joy.
incryptia's review against another edition
5.0
Such an interesting book! Would recommend to everyone and will definitely go back to read passages, inspiring!
brettbittner's review against another edition
5.0
LOVED this book! It smashes so many of the myths we're told about, trained to, and measured against at work. The explanations about the lies show exactly why it's a lie, and follow up with what we should focus on instead in the same area to get the desired outcome. It's a classic case of intent vs. outcome.