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Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 448 with Ashley Goodall. Ashley is talking about the lies

that are all around us in the workplace and what the truth is and where they

come from and what to do about them so it's an an interesting chat. We'll talk about one, how deeply rooted

misconceptions about work lead to inefficiency. Two, why you should focus on being spiky rather than well-rounded. And three, how

systematization removes the human essence from work.

So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items we reference,

it's on over at awesome at your job.com slash F-438. Now here's Ashley's story.

Ashley Goodall is currently Senior Vice President of Leadership and Team Intelligence at

Cisco.

In this role he has built a new organization

focused entirely on serving teams and team leaders combining talent

management succession coaching assessment executive talent

workforce and talent planning research analytics and technology

altogether to support leaders and their teams in real time.

Previously he was director and chief floating officer,

leader development at Deloitte.

He's the co-author with Marcus Buckingham of reinventing performance

of management, the cover story in the April 2015 issue of the

Harvard Business Review. He lives at Montclair, New Jersey, and he's got a great book

that we're going to talk about called Nine Lives About Work. So thanks to

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