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An Everyone Culture
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An Everyone Culture

by Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey, Matthew L Miller, Andy Fleming, Deborah Helsing
March 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
336 pages
8h 12m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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Introduction

Culture as Strategy

In an ordinary organization, most people are doing a second job no one is paying them for. In businesses large and small; in government agencies, schools, and hospitals; in for-profits and nonprofits, and in any country in the world, most people are spending time and energy covering up their weaknesses, managing other people’s impressions of them, showing themselves to their best advantage, playing politics, hiding their inadequacies, hiding their uncertainties, hiding their limitations. Hiding.

We regard this as the single biggest loss of resources that organizations suffer every day. Is anything more valuable to a company than the way its people spend their energies? The total cost of this waste is simple to ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781625278630