Book review: Nine Lies About Work

Rob Streetman Jan. 23, 2020

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Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real Worldby Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall will challenge the paradigms of leaders who have been trained in the current Western management culture. For the freethinking leader, this book has the potential to be a real game-changer.

Based on extensive research, the authors expose nine false assumptions about management discipline in the 21st century. Just to give you an idea of the impact this book may have on your leadership fundamentals, those lies include: 

• “People care which company they work for”

• “People can reliably rate other people”

• “Leadership is a thing”

In addition to exposing these and six other lies, the authors reveal truth about each fale assumption and provide helpful answers to questions like, What am I supposed to do now?

As a Christian, I was delighted to find that the humanistic reasoning applied to management discipline was false and inadequate. This discovery opens the door for the consideration and application of spiritual precepts and disciplines. Several of the alternative truths support this shift in thinking.

Reading Nine Lies About Work is an experience as much as an education. The truth about work will free “freethinking” leaders to manage in more productive, profitable and fulfilling ways. This is a book I will read again and gift to other leaders. 

God bless you with grace and opportunity to lead others through and into the truth about work.

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Rob Streetman serves the body of Christ as President of two parachurch ministries: inLight Consulting (a workplace transformation ministry) and 2:2 Collective (a unity and church growth ministry). He is the author of two books: The Map Maker and A Storm is Coming. Rob’s heart desires is to encourage, edify and equip Christian leaders as disciple-makers and transformation agents—that they would become houses that stand in the storms of this life. He previously worked in various IT industry positions. Learn More »

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