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More About This Title Why Managing Sucks and How to Fix It: A Results-Only Guide to Taking Control of Work, Not People
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Change the way you think about work (and life) by focusing on results—and only results
Why Managing Sucks and How to Fix It shows how the Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE) mindset can make you or your organization more entrepreneurial, more connected with the broader trends in your industry, and more willing to take smart risks. It explains how to set clear expectations and focus on the endpoint as opposed to managing the process that gets you there. With eyes set on getting rid of distractions, long meetings, and unnecessary updates, this book offers quick, everyday strategies to experience huge increases in productivity (without adding resources) and dramatic drops in turnover.
- Authors Ressler and Thompson began their work together at Best Buy where they are credited with revolutionizing the workplace
- Reframes thinking away from counting on general availability (Where's Bob?) to creating clear expectations (Does Bob know exactly what's expected of him?)
- Explains how to reduce the number of meetings while increasing their quality
- Shows how to eliminate scheduled events in order to increase critical thinking and improve communication
ROWE is a bold, cultural transformation that permeates the attitudes and operating style of an entire workplace, leveling the playing field and giving people complete autonomy—to manage their measurable results using adult common sense.
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CALI RESSLER and JODY THOMPSON are the cofounders of CultureRx and authors of Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It. CultureRx provides training services customized to the needs of their clients that successfully shift teams and entire organizations into a Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE). Cali and Jody began their work together at Best Buy, where they are credited with revolutionizing the workplace.
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Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 Wake Up! Go Beyond Telework 21
Creating an Accountability Culture by Karren Fink 55
Chapter 2 Motivate Me. No Pizza Party, Please 63
The Importance of Trust by Bryan Sivak 98
Chapter 3 S.M.A.R.T. Goals ¼ Senseless
Minutia Against Random Tasks 105
Down with Billable Hours, Up with Results by Otmara “Omi” Diaz-Cooper and Todd Cooper 137
Chapter 4 24/7 Kicks 9–5’s Ass 143
Focus on What Matters by Greg Watt 169
Chapter 5 No More Bullshit Meetings. Period. 177
Delighting the Customer by Ronnie Wooten 201
Chapter 6 Results. Not for Every Job? 207
Results-Only Competency-Based Education by Jeff Herzberg 237
ROWE in the Public Sector by Nancy Dietl Griffin 244
Epilogue 256
About the Authors 272
Index 273
