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Nine Lies About Work
- A Freethinking Leader's Guide to the Real World
- Narrated by: Marcus Buckingham, Ashley Goodall
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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Summary
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.
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- Carolina Rodriguez
- 15-04-22
the best book I've read about work so far
I want to re-read it again. Soon!
When you've been questioning methods or 'cultures' for a while in your jobs, this is the perfect book for that.
Highly logical and making sense, straightforward, I totally recommend it
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- Mr C S Connor
- 03-08-19
Truly inspiring
I dont write many reviews, but wow.
This book confirmed everything ive known and felt for many years but have not been able to pull together in my own mind in a cohesive fashion.
And the last chapter....amazing.
Treat yourself to this book, you wont regret it.
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- Elizabeth Iheoma
- 09-02-20
Superb leadership book
Excellent book. Best leadership book I've ever read which makes me want to stay in leadership and management. Some concepts seem a utopian. Can this really be a reality? I truly , truly hope so. I would love to help promote the ideologies in this book.
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- David Dikman
- 10-03-21
Brilliant
This book was brilliant. It really changed my mind about how I lead my team and how I should help reshape my company. To stop doing things because custom tells us to and do things that work and feel right.
The reading of this book and version was also really good. I smiled a lot whilst listening to it.
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- Simon Huggins
- 29-08-21
Common sense with analysis to back it up
The interview on Stuff You Should Know podcast brought me here - excellent interview that made me think Yes! Finally some common sense injected into the modern day corporate nonsense.
I started listening to the Audiobook, and thought Uh Oh! This is going to be one of those research intensive books that do not translate well to Audiobook, but in fact as I went on, and got used to the two narrators different delivery styles, I started finding it really fascinating, and ultimately the balance was about right between narrative and research.
It is refreshing because most of what is in here is what I do naturally anyway given the opportunity to do so. What most people would do, I suspect. Let's see if we can all bring a little bit of fresh air back into our respective corporate environments - the lessons here can be applied at many levels of an organisation. Let's hope it percolates upwards and makes all our working lives more like that promised on the tin when we first enter our respective workplaces.
I sent a link to my manager having just thrown together some yearly objectives. Let's see how that goes!
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- Allan S Ferguson
- 30-05-19
It's like they've been inside my head :)
I really enjoyed listening this audio book. The content is thought provoking and well worth listening to; especially if you're one of those people who likes to question 'received wisdom'. Highly recommended...
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- Pete Buckley
- 22-10-20
Brilliant clarity and thoughtful for any leader
Really enjoyed listening and then reading this book. Having a keen interest in the subject going back over 30 years, I can honestly say this is a book of our times. The book provides anyone who is a leader, or interested in the subject of work and leadership, with some rich material to not only reflect upon, but in many instances easily translate into practice.
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- dean burdon
- 27-08-22
Solid book which pops the normal business nonsense
Lots of good real truths about real working life vs classroom based thinking. Would recommend to new managers and those wanting to improve
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- Irish P
- 19-07-19
good to listen to.
its steady commentary and then it lights up halfway through then plateaus. the bit in the middle though is worth the investment.
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- Riethmayer
- 07-11-19
Challenges all the assumptions we make as employers
We aspire to building high performance teams and by doing so we consume anecdotal insights of successful leaders.
I’m humbled by all the assumptions and mistakes I made which become painfully obvious after finishing Nine Lies About Work.
I am grateful for having a better grasp on my circle of competence after reading this excellent book.
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