Forget what you know about the world of work You crave feedback. Your organization's culture is
the key to its success. Strategic planning is essential. Your competencies should be measured
and your weaknesses shored up. Leadership is a thing. These may sound like basic truths of our
work lives today. But actually they're lies. As strengths guru and bestselling author Marcus
Buckingham and Cisco Leadership and Team Intelligence head Ashley Goodall show in this
provocative inspiring book there are some big lies--distortions faulty assumptions wrong
thinking--that we encounter every time we show up for work. Nine lies to be exact. They cause
dysfunction and frustration ultimately resulting in workplaces that are a pale shadow of what
they could be. But there are those who can get past the lies and discover what's real. These
freethinking leaders recognize the power and beauty of our individual uniqueness. They 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 matter most that we
should focus less 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 as it is and as it should be. Nine Lies
About Work reveals the few core truths that will help you show just how good you are to those
who truly rely on you.
