Nine Lies About Work
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
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 their recent book, Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World, there are some big lies, distortions and faulty assumptions 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 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.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Jill Schlesinger on this episode of the podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | What's the one thing every organization needs to focus on? |
| 0:11.0 | So we've got to learn to be really specific about the things we are drawn to. We would do if nobody paid us to do. |
| 0:19.4 | If you're going to do one thing right on a team, one thing, figure that out for everybody in the team. |
| 0:25.9 | You point your curiosity at Bright Sparks. |
| 0:30.0 | That's the trick. |
| 0:31.8 | Welcome to the Jill On Money Podcast. |
| 0:33.8 | We are presented by Marcus by Goldman Sachs. |
| 0:37.6 | Have you ever been in one of those dreadful off sites where someone comes in and starts lecturing about team building and you kind of |
| 0:47.0 | like, I don't want to be here, I don't want to do this. |
| 0:50.3 | Well, I've got a great guest for you. |
| 0:54.6 | We've got Ashley Goodall. |
| 0:55.8 | He is the Senior Vice President of Leadership |
| 0:58.7 | and Team Intelligence at Cisco. |
| 1:01.5 | And he's co-written a book that's called Nine Lies About Work, |
| 1:07.0 | a free-thinking leaders guide to the real world. |
| 1:10.0 | And what I love about this book is it dispels so many myths that are running through |
| 1:16.5 | organizations large and small. So check it out. Here's our interview with Ashley Goodall. |
| 1:23.0 | You're listening to Jill on Money with Jill Slessenger. |
| 1:28.0 | Ashley Goodall, welcome to the program. |
| 1:30.0 | It's great to be here, Joe. |
| 1:31.0 | We start with an extremely important question and that is what is your best |
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