Summary of Marcus Buckingham & Ashley Goodall's Nine Lies About Work

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#1 Lisa worked for Company A for 18 years, and then she moved to Company B. She spent two years there, and then she met her manager, who was extremely hierarchical and severe.

#2 Lisa spent months researching a company before she decided to leave her job and join another. She was excited about the company’s Core Values, but she quickly realized that they weren’t being implemented in the team she was assigned to.

#3 If you are looking for a job, you will look for information about a company online. You will want to know if your colleagues will treat you well, what a typical day will be like, and whether the company cares about its employees.

#4 Culture is now a major focus for companies, and it is becoming more and more important to judge employees by how well they fit the culture.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669374916

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Lisa worked for Company A for 18 years, and then she moved to Company B. She spent two years there, and then she met her manager, who was extremely hierarchical and severe.

#2

Lisa spent months researching a company before she decided to leave her job and join another. She was excited about the company’s Core Values, but she quickly realized that they weren’t being implemented in the team she was assigned to.

#3

If you are looking for a job, you will look for information about a company online. You will want to know if your colleagues will treat you well, what a typical day will be like, and whether the company cares about its employees.

#4

Culture is now a major focus for companies, and it is becoming more and more important to judge employees by how well they fit the culture.

#5

The first lie is that people care about which company they work for. It sounds strange to label this a lie, since each of us feels some sort of connection to our company, but read on and you’ll see that what each of us cares about quickly changes.

#6

The most important aspects of our experience at work are the things we do every day, which are typically the most important aspects of our lives. The only way to rigorously answer the question of what these are is to create two groups of people, one group from teams with high performance, and another from teams with low or average performance.

#7

The eight aspects that best predict team performance are: I am really enthusiastic about the mission of my company, I am surrounded by people who share my values, I have the chance to use my strengths every day at work, my teammates have my back, I know