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- A Freethinking Leader's Guide to the Real World
- Narrated by: Marcus Buckingham, Ashley Goodall
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Publisher's 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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- Nino
- 2021-07-24
Good content, but boring narration
I really enjoyed the content and found it applicable and helpful to my career in the public sector. However, the narration of one of the narrators made it really hard to listen to it sometime.
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- Ahmed Khalifa
- 2019-11-06
I would recommend this book for every manager
First, let me answer some of the critiques I read here
1 - The Narration is a personal thing, I found it profoundly effective
2 - The 'highly questionable' conclusion is probably a misunderstanding of what the book is about, this is not about 'here is what to do', I believe this should be read a balancing act against all the things we take for granted.
Now here is my review
So here I am, a good manager (I thought), following all principals of "Radical Candor", "Crucial Conversations", "What got you here", "Leaders eat last", "Act like a leader", "Seat at the table" and more, on top of extensive training on, and actually building teams. I thought I got this!
Then comes along this book and I am so grateful that it shook me up the way it did.
This book is an important reminder to all of us to not lose sight of what is important and how some things that we take for granted like 'feedback' and 'balanced leadership' may actually be not where we should focus!.
This book was a good wake up call to keep my critical thinking hat on while absorbing leadership training, a good reminder that human beings are infinitely complex and we must stop squaring them into round holes!
The audio performance I found to be very good, it did put a smile on my face and some of my most commented-on LinkedIn posts came from it!
It is probably second only to "Seat at the table" of my all-time top reads!
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- 2020-01-05
Interesting subjects questioning the status quo
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interesting viewpoint with challenging the status quo. it is one of those books which makes yiu think abit more before putting a process in place. I agree with the leadership discussion.
the narration speed was different for the two narrators.
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- Etienne Bourret
- 2021-07-12
read the book !!
this is good content, YES BUT red by 2 depressing guys.... please, have someone cheerfull reread it !!!!
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- JK Weening Family
- 2019-12-31
Not my favorite work of Buckinghams
I like a lot of the work Marcus Buckingham has done over the years but in my opinion this isn't his best work. I don't agree with many of the theories in this book and find they twist proven ideas to make them come across as negative and then base their opposing theory on one unique example in each case. Ashley probably shouldn't narrate either but it's not too bad at X1.4 speed when he reads. Just my opinion...
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- Amazon Customer
- 2022-04-09
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Really long winded.
Painfuly boring narrators.
Skip to the end for the summary rsther than wasting your time.
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