Nine Lies About Work : A Freethinking Leader's Guide To The Real World By Marcus Buckingham And Ashley Goodall
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The Main Idea
Why is it that many of the ideas and practices which are pretty much held as universal truths are actually deeply unpopular with and intensely frustrating to the people they are supposed to serve?
The workplace of today is full of systems, processes and tools but for the most part they are deeply flawed and work against the idea that you should have the ability to express what's unique about you in the work you do every day. That's why global worker engagement is at less than 20 percent.
Specifically, there are nine myths or lies which will get pushed at you daily which simply are not true. They aim to satisfy the organization's need for control more than anything else. Replace them with nine truths and prosper.
We came to think of our audience not as the new leader but as the freethinking leader. A leader who embraces a world in which the weird uniqueness of each individual is seen not as a flaw to be ground down but as a mess worth engaging with, the raw material for all healthy, ethical, thriving organizations; a leader who rejects dogma and instead seeks out evidence; who values emergent patterns above received wisdom; who thrills to the power of teams; who puts faith in findings, not philosophy; and above all, a leader who knows that the only way to make the world better tomorrow is to have the courage and the wit to face up to how it really is today. This is for you.
Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall
The Nine Lies And Truths Of The Workplace
Lie #1: People care which company they work for.
Truth #1: People care which team they're on. Because that's where the real world work happens.
Lie #2: The best plan always wins.
Truth #2: The best intelligence wins. Because the world moves too fast for plans to matter much.
Lie #3: The best companies cascade goals.
Truth #3: The best companies cascade meaning. Because people want to know what they all share.
Lie #4: The best people are well-rounded.
Truth #4: The best people are spiky. Because for humans, uniqueness is a feature, not a bug.
Lie #5: People need feedback.
Truth #5: People need attention. Because we all want to be seen for how we are at our best, not our worst.
Lie #6: People can reliably rate other people.
Truth #6: People can reliably rate their own experience. Because at the end of the day, that's all we have.
Lie #7: People have potential.
Truth #7: People have momentum. Because we all move through life differently.
Lie #8: Work-life ballance matters most.
Truth #8: Love-in-work matters most. Because when you look at it, that's what work is really for.
Lie #9: Leadership is a thing.
Truth #9: We all follow spikes. Because strangely enough, spikes bring us certainty.
About The Authors
Marcus Buckingham is a global researcher and the author of nine business books including First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths. He collaborated with Dr. Donald Clifton to create the StandOut strengths assessment which has been completed by more than one million people to date. He worked as a senior vice president at Gallup for 19 years and is currently head of people and performance research at the ADP Research Institute. He also is the founder of his own consulting company. Marcus Buckingham is a graduate of the University of Cambridge. www.marcusbuckingham.com
Ashley Goodall is senior vice president of Leadership and Team Intelligence at Cisco Systems. He worked for fourteen years at Deloitte where he was responsible for leader development and performance management. Ashley Goodall excels at looking at large organizations from the inside. He is a graduate of Columbia University and Oxford University. www.ashleygoodall.com
Summaries.Com Editor's Thoughts
As usual, the book we summarized this week is thought provoking.
Marcus Buckingham is quite widely known in leadership circles for his work with Gallup and his championing of strengths assessments and more. His co-author Ashley Goodall is less widely known, but the points they have written about definitely give food for thought. They say that the workplace of today is not all it seems, and many legacy business systems are not fit for purpose when you take a data-based approach.
I particularly enjoyed their explanations of why performance evaluations are completely ineffective and why we are attracted to leaders who are exceptional in some areas but clearly and obviously flawed in other dimensions.
I also liked their general theme that you shouldn't believe something simply because it's accepted wisdom but should instead face up to reality.
A good read for managers and team leaders or anyone looking to work their way up their corporation.
Amazon.com
Forget What You Know About The World Of Work
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 show in this provocative, inspiring book, 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.
Editorial Reviews
Named one of "Our 10 favorite new books for people managers" by SHRM (Society for Human Resource Managers)
One of the Financial Times "Business Books of the Month"
Named a Bloomberg Businessweek pick
Named one of "14 business books everyone will be reading in 2019" by Business Insider
Named one of "10 Leadership Books to Watch for in 2019" by the Washington Post
Named one of "10 Business Books You Need to Read in 2019" by Inc. magazine
Named one of "The 19 New Leadership Books to Read in 2019" by Adam Grant on LinkedIn
"Nine Lies is utterly readable, often entertaining, and not just polite, but carefully reasoned and argued using some unusual real-world examples and even some from literature." - Human Resource Executive (hrexecutive.com)
"leads to some free thinking about the way we do our jobs and how we can approach what we do in a different way." -- Financial Times
"If a business book teaches me something new--and offers a fresh perspective on leadership--then I know it's a rare find in the category. Nine Lies About Work is just such a book. It's so thought provoking, I contacted the authors to speak with them directly." -- Forbes
"…should be on every boss's bookshelf." -- Management Today
"a stimulating, no-nonsense, research-based look at things you likely believe that aren't true – and how to apply the new findings." -- The Globe and Mail
"The act of work is human. Leading and following and working together is about human interaction and human relationships. The workplace, and the marketplace beyond it, is about emotions and attention and the desire to be seen. It is about trust and, yes, it is about love. I am always grateful to be reminded of that, to see it again clearly, to have it acknowledged. Nine Lies About Work is a great reminder, and a great guide." -- 800 CEO READ
"Give a copy of this book to everyone in your organization who's leading a team and make it essential reading." -- The Hamilton Spectator
"If you're looking for a refreshing read that challenges the conventional wisdom of the business world, this is a book for your shelf." -- TD magazine (Association for Talent Development)
"There is much we can learn about managing and leading our schools from its pages." -- Inside Higher Ed
Advance Praise for Nine Lies About Work:
In today's complex world, we instinctively seek simplicity. But in many cases, it's easier to lie to ourselves than it is to face the harsh reality--to see more of what want to see than how things really are. In Nine Lies About Work, Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall shine a light on just how dangerous those lies can be, especially in the context of our careers. Combining engaging stories about the modern workplace with nuanced quantitative analysis, Nine Lies About Work debunks the myths that surround leadership, planning, and balance in the corporate world. Everyone who reads this book is sure to be a better employee, but more importantly, a better leader. -- Gen. Stan McChrystal (Ret’d), United States Army
About The Author
Marcus Buckingham is a global researcher and thought leader focused on unlocking people's strengths, increasing their performance, and pioneering the future of how people work. He is head of all people and performance research at the ADP Research Institute and the author of several bestselling books, including StandOut 2.0: Assess Your Strengths, Find Your Edge, Win at Work (Harvard Business Review Press).
Ashley Goodall is Senior Vice President of Leadership and Team Intelligence at Cisco. Previously he was Director and Chief Learning Officer, Leader Development, at Deloitte. He is the coauthor, with Marcus Buckingham, of two Harvard Business Review cover stories, "Reinventing Performance Management," in April 2015 and "The Feedback Fallacy," in March/April 2019.
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