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Nine Lies About Work
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Nine Lies About Work

by Marcus Buckingham, Ashley Goodall
April 2019
Beginner
304 pages
6h 45m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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The best companies cascade goals

Recently a friend told us about a goal of hers: She said she was going to run a marathon. More precisely, she told us she was going to run the Prague marathon in seven months’ time, in May. And when we asked her why, off the top of her head she shared a few of her reasons: that May was far enough away to give her time to go from “the couch to the course”; that the only marathon she could find around that time was in Prague; that she’d never been to Prague; that the course in Prague was known to be a mostly flat course and that a marathon was hard enough without throwing in those darn hills.

But of course none of ...

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ISBN: 9781633696310