'A crucial read.' Marshall Goldsmith'A must-read.' Marcus BuckinghamChange and innovation are
the cornerstones of dynamic and modern business.Or so we are told. Whether it's a merger or
re-org a new process policy or IT solution or reconfiguring the office layout change has
become the ultimate easy button for leaders who pursue it with abandon and thereby unleash an
endless torrent of disruption on employees. The result is life in the blender: a perpetual
state of upheaval uncertainty and unease. Yes companies need to grow innovate and adapt to
changing needs. But stressed-out employees rarely go the extra mile chaos rarely produces
agility or speed and it's hard innovate or grow while bleeding talent to turnover and quiet
quitting. This is how change stymies the very progress that it seeks. Drawing on decades spent
leading HR operations at Deloitte and Cisco Ashley Goodall explores the essential nature of
human performance and offers a radical new alternative to the constant turbulence that defines
corporate life. By prioritizing team cohesion (instead of reshuffling teams at will) by
communicating in real words (rather than corporate speak) by striving for predictability
(instead of charisma) by honoring shared rituals (instead of corporately-mandated bonding) by
fixing only the things that are truly broken (instead of moving fast and breaking everything in
sight) and more leaders at every level can create environments that allow people to do the
best work of their lives.
