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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Listening Length	8 hours and 53 minutes
Author	Marcus Buckingham, Ashley Goodall
Narrator	Marcus Buckingham, Ashley Goodall
Audible.ca Release Date	April 02 2019
Publisher	Gildan Media
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B07Q4G3GGC
Best Sellers Rank	#27,448 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #203 in Workplace & Organizational Behaviour #681 in Workplace Processes & Infrastructure #716 in Small Business & Entrepreneurship

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All what you intuited proven by hard data

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This is now on the top of my list as a must read for anybody in the workforce.

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Truths worth considering

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olaf

Nothing revolutionary

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 27, 2019

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Nothing revolutionary, nine chapters of which some show an interesting approach to certain topics while others state the obvious. Probably it should have been 5 lies about work, not 9 as it feels like some topics were a struggle to turn them into whole chapters

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This is - quite simply- the best book on work I have ever read. It engagingly and meticulously destroys the lies that continue to plague the modern work place, and gives concrete steps that could transform our working lives - and the corporate world- for the better. An urgent, important, powerful book that I just cannot recommend highly enough.

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Jeff Weigh

What we are lead to believe is not always so true

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 31, 2019

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An excellent thought provoking read. Challenging some pre conceived ideas and views.
Particular enjoyed the sections on leadership, talent (potential) and work-life balance.
We live in a world determined by the narrative that we read and tell ourselves.
A welcome reminder that not everything we know and believe is true.

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Revolutionary buy yet common sense thinking around Leadership Dogmas

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This excellent book will definitely have you thinking about what you believe and do as a leader a lot differently.

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Love this book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 29, 2019

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Sane, wise and well written. Love this book.

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