Author(s): Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall

Business Finance Management

You Know How Good You Are. Work Doesn't. Let's Fix That. If you know when you're on fire and everyone turns to you ..., If you know the dent you were meant to make in the world ..., If you ever feel that your work can't see this, or worse, that it sees it and doesn't care ..., If you refuse to believe that this is good enough ... Then this book is for you. Our organizations are still trying to control what we think and do. They tell us: 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. These may sound like the basic truths of work today. But actually, they're lies. As strengths guru Marcus Buckingham and Cisco Leadership and Team Intelligence head Ashley Goodall show in this pivotal book, there are some big lies-faulty assumptions, wrong thinking-that we encounter every day at work. Nine lies, to be exact. They cause dysfunction and frustration, resulting in workplaces that are a pale shadow of what they could be. But there are individuals who can get past the lies and discover what's real. 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 company culture, that matter most; that we need less focus on top-down planning and more on giving people reliable, real-time intelligence; 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 core truths that will help you show just how good you are to those who truly rely on you. Book jacket.