Author Background:
Ashley Goodall is an executive, leadership expert, and author. He currently serves as the Senior Vice President of Leadership and Team Intelligence (LTI) at Cisco, a new organization he has built to focus entirely on serving teams and team leaders. He is the co-author, with Marcus Buckingham, of Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World and of two cover stories in the Harvard Business Review.
Ashley’s Book Recommendation:
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Five Good Questions:
- In your book you state that culture is a “shared fiction” and similar to plumage. What do you mean by that and what are “we” vs. “me” experiences at work?
- What’s wrong with management by objectives (MBOs), SMART goals, and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) that are widely used?
- What can Lionel Messi teach us about employees?
- What do “red threads” have to do with work-life balance?
- As an investor, what are some outside clues that could indicate a good culture exists in a company we might want to invest in? How do we really know?
With gratitude,
