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Summary of Nine Lies About Work 

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We believe that work is a necessary torture that allows us to live our real lives, raise families, travel, and have fun. What most of us don’t realize here is that work doesn’t contradict life; it is a part of it. Whether we see it as misery or blessing depends only on our attitude. Work-life balance is one of the lies exposed by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall, who wrote this book. Buckingham is a bestselling author who conducts global research on how people perform at work; Goodall is the Senior Vice President of Leadership and Team Intelligence at Cisco Systems. “Nine Lies About Work” is a thorough theoretical and practical work that might give you several epiphanies. Moreover, it will help you see your work-related issues from a different perspective. Who knows, perhaps you will even identify why you don’t like your current job or still don’t have one. "The world of work today is overflowing with systems, processes, tools, and assumptions that are deeply flawed and that push directly against our ability to express what is unique about each of us in the work we do every day." ~ Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall

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Not everything we believe in is true

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Getting the job that we’ve always dreamt about often leaves us disappointed. How come? This is what we were trained for and what we feel passionate about! The truth is that many of us have false expectations and a vague understanding of how the professional company world works.

All businesses are profit-driven. Many of them have other, more “enlightened” goals, for sure, but revenues come first. To gain the maximum profit, companies aim for the ultimate efficiency of all business processes and employees’ performance. Psychologists, HRs, analysts, and other relevant specialists devised different assessment methods to see where this utmost efficiency is achieved. Whatever the method, they all have one significant drawback: evaluating everyone against the established norm does not explain why people work and make decisions this way.
Tools, systems, and methods employed to estimate our work ignore the most valuable resource we possess: our uniqueness.
In this summary, you will learn that assessments and observations are not always reliable talent appraisal methods. On top of that, competencies are not representative because they are based on the interplay of temporary (states) and permanent (traits) characteristics. Moreover, and it may come as a shock, you will understand why leadership is a word but not a thing, and if someone in charge doesn’t seem to be a leader, you don’t see them as such. These were just 3 lies put roughly. Read on to learn more!
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LIE 1: We are most interested in what the company is like

Even fresh from university, most of us know what our dream job should be like. We have an understanding of what we are capable of and what interests and goals we have. Still, numerous others have no clue as to what their inclinations and skills are. When looking for a job, both groups make the same mistake: they focus on the company, not the people they will be working with. The truth is that company is a collective name for all the people who make it what it is.
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LIE 2: Planning keeps your company on the float

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LIE 3: Only goals make teams successful

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LIE 4: Pointing out what people do wrong will boost their performance

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LIE 5: People will be more productive when told they have potential

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LIE 6: Work-life balance is the most important thing

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LIE 7: To be a leader, you need a particular set of qualities

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LIE 8: Competencies matter

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LIE 9: We can accurately rate other people

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