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    No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of Workplace Drama, End Entitlement, and Drive Big Results
    No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of Workplace Drama, End Entitlement, and Drive Big Results
    No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of Workplace Drama, End Entitlement, and Drive Big Results
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    No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of Workplace Drama, End Entitlement, and Drive Big Results

    Written by Cy Wakeman

    Narrated by Cynthia Farrell

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    About this audiobook

    New York Times bestselling author and leadership trainer says: Getting your employees to do their work shouldn't have to be so much, well, work! For years now, leaders in almost every industry have accepted two completely false assumptions - that change is hard, and that engagement drives results. Those beliefs have inspired expensive attempts to shield employees from change, involve them in high-level decision-making, and keep them happy with endless satisfaction surveys and workplace perks. But what these engagement programs actually do, Cy Wakeman says, is inflate expectations and sow unhappiness, leaving employees unprepared to adapt to even minor changes necessary to the organization's survival. Rather than driving performance and boosting efficiency, these programs fuel entitlement and drama, costing millions in time and profit. No Ego is about increasing awareness of just how often individuals are operating out of ego at work, breeding drama and discord rather than innovation and constructive collaboration. It is high time to reinvent leadership thinking. The current work experience is so full of emotional waste that it's seen as a foregone cost in today's business environments. Cy Wakeman teaches straightforward strategies in which this time and energy can be re-commissioned and put toward the value that hired talent is intended to provide. No Ego disposes with unproven HR maxims, and instead offers a complete plan to turn your office from a den of discontent into a highly productive place where happy employees are accountable employees.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateNov 22, 2017
    ISBN9781501977930
    No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of Workplace Drama, End Entitlement, and Drive Big Results
    Author

    Cy Wakeman

    CY WAKEMAN is a drama researcher, international leadership speaker, and consultant. In 2001 she founded Reality-Based Leadership. She is the author of Reality-Based Leadership, No Ego, and the New York Times bestseller The Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace. In 2017, she was named as one of the Top 30 Global Leadership Gurus by Global Gurus, a Top 100 Leadership Expert to Follow on Twitter, and was deemed "the secret weapon to restoring sanity to the workplace." She lives in Omaha, Nebraska.

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    • 4/5
      Very good book, with an interesting take on business leadership - great for new leaders inspiring low drama, in an ever changing environment. Encourages you to be an effective and efficient Type A personality. “Tough love” seems to be a theme, and can encourage productivity - not confident this book takes into consideration the human experience. Not everything is as simple as “my way, or the highway”.
      Great read, though!
    • 1/5
      The author has exactly one good point to make but it takes her 162 pages of repetition to make it. And then contradict herself. And then reiterate in a different way. The one good point is - take drama and emotion out of the workplace when you can. If you have employees who like to complain rather than work on solutions, hear them out for an amount of time appropriate to the situation and to the employee's value to the organization, lead them to think about how much of the complaint is verifiably true (not just "feels" true) and then turn it around and give them responsibility to come up with a solution. Taking emotion out of the workplace isn't a great solution for people who are passionate about their jobs but it can be helpful for a manager to pause, take a breath, and look at the situation without emotion clouding thoughts. Her other piece of advice seems to be - employees who don't say 'how high?' when you say 'jump' (without any explanation for why the employee is being told to jump) should be fired. I'll give her one star for the reminder about how easy it is to let employee drama drag down an organization but this isn't groundbreaking and an article on workplace drama would have served as a better management aid than Wakeman's drawn-out, contradictory, self-congratulatory book.