Two top experts on high-performing organizations show today's leaders how to reframe their own
and their employees' relationship with fear and anxiety to create a learning culture of engaged
workers at the top of their game. Fear and uncertainty have been undermining performance and
well-being in the workplace for as long as we have had workplaces. Worse the ever-increasing
speed of business the economic slowdown and volatility we face due to Covid-19 as well as
racial tensions and social inequality further exacerbate these emotions. Here's a little-known
fact of business: mismanaged fear is responsible for almost all of the dysfunction that most
organizations experience. While fear can drive short-term results it does so at the cost of
high employee burnout and turnover. It also undermines long-term business performance. But we
can't eradicate it entirely it is inherent to the human condition. Winning organizations
aren't fear-free they know how to transform that negative energy into opportunities for
learning and growth. They create resilient cultures of unfear. In this timely and essential
guide McKinsey alumni Gaurav Bhatnagar and Mark Minukas present a proven approach to workplace
anxiety that reduces stress boosts well-being and overcomes blocks that get in the way of
success. It begins with changing our relationship with fear and then developing strategies
that improve outlook and performance leading to greater profits sustainable growth and
personal rewards. It's only possible with a culture of unfear.
