No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of Workplace Drama, End Entitlement, and Drive Big Results
Written by Cy Wakeman
Narrated by Cynthia Farrell
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Cy Wakeman
CY WAKEMAN is a drama researcher, international leadership speaker, and consultant. In 2001 she founded Reality-Based Leadership. She is the author of Reality-Based Leadership, No Ego, and the New York Times bestseller The Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace. In 2017, she was named as one of the Top 30 Global Leadership Gurus by Global Gurus, a Top 100 Leadership Expert to Follow on Twitter, and was deemed "the secret weapon to restoring sanity to the workplace." She lives in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Reviews for No Ego
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very good book, with an interesting take on business leadership - great for new leaders inspiring low drama, in an ever changing environment. Encourages you to be an effective and efficient Type A personality. “Tough love” seems to be a theme, and can encourage productivity - not confident this book takes into consideration the human experience. Not everything is as simple as “my way, or the highway”.
Great read, though! - Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The author has exactly one good point to make but it takes her 162 pages of repetition to make it. And then contradict herself. And then reiterate in a different way. The one good point is - take drama and emotion out of the workplace when you can. If you have employees who like to complain rather than work on solutions, hear them out for an amount of time appropriate to the situation and to the employee's value to the organization, lead them to think about how much of the complaint is verifiably true (not just "feels" true) and then turn it around and give them responsibility to come up with a solution. Taking emotion out of the workplace isn't a great solution for people who are passionate about their jobs but it can be helpful for a manager to pause, take a breath, and look at the situation without emotion clouding thoughts. Her other piece of advice seems to be - employees who don't say 'how high?' when you say 'jump' (without any explanation for why the employee is being told to jump) should be fired. I'll give her one star for the reminder about how easy it is to let employee drama drag down an organization but this isn't groundbreaking and an article on workplace drama would have served as a better management aid than Wakeman's drawn-out, contradictory, self-congratulatory book.