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A review by jpmaguire2
Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader's Guide to the Real World by Ashley Goodall, Marcus Buckingham
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.