The compromise trap : how to thrive at work without selling your soul / Elizabeth Doty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doty, Elizabeth, author.

Kleiner, Art, author.

Series:

BK business book.

A BK Business book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business ethics.

Success in business.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

How to thrive at work without selling your soul

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., [2009]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

A detailed and inspiring strategy for staying true to yourself at work while contributing to your organization's effectiveness and integrity Based on over fifty candid interviews with businesspeople at all levels, including vivid firsthand accounts of compromise and courage Eminently practical and constructive, with exercises and strategies you can apply wherever you workHealthy compromise is a fact of organizational life, part of accomplishing any meaningful goal with other people. But when it involves betraying your word, your principles, or other important commitments, it takes a bi

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Introduction: Seeing with Peripheral Vision; What to Expect; How to Use This Book; 1 The Compromise Trap; Healthy and Unhealthy Compromise; Healthy and Unhealthy Pressure; How Shall I Engage?; The Compromise Trap; Redefining the Game; Personal Foundations; Thriving at Work without Selling Your Soul; 2 A Devil's Bargain by Degrees; An Appreciative Inquiry into the "Dark Side" of Work; General Pressure to Conform; Routine Pressure to Compromise; Making a Gradual Deal with the Devil; How Playing Along Becomes a Trap; How Do You Know If You're in the Compromise Trap?

How to Free Yourself3 Ten Misconceptions about Compromise at Work; Misconception 1: Compromise Is Always Healthy; Misconception 2: Good Companies Don't Create Unhealthy Pressure; Misconception 3: Unhealthy Pressure Is the Leader's Fault; Misconception 4: You Have to Go Along to Survive; Misconception 5: You'll Always Know If You're Crossing a Line; Misconception 6: The Company Sets the Terms; Misconception 7: You Should Just Say No; Misconception 8: Refusing to Compromise Means Fighting Back; Misconception 9: You Thrive When You Get to the Top

Misconception 10: Individual Integrity Adds Up to Organizational Integrity4 How Do I Redefine the Game?; Welcome to the Parallel Universe; What It Means to Redefine the Game; Becoming Bigger; Creating Room to Redefine Your Game; Bigger Questions; Do I Have to Leave to Engage at a Higher Level?; 5 Reconnect to Your Strengths; What It Means to Reconnect to Your Strengths; Reconnecting to Your Strengths in the Moment; Decision Point Tool #1: Activating Your Strengths; Reconnecting to Your Strengths over Time; Where to Go from Here; 6 See the Larger Field; What It Means to See the Larger Field

Seeing the Larger Field in the MomentDecision Point Tool #2: Questioning the Deal; Seeing the Larger Field over Time; Where to Go from Here; 7 Define a Worthy Enough Win; What It Means to Define a Worthy Enough Win; Defining a Worthy Enough Win in the Moment; Decision Point Tool #3: Defining Your Worthy Enough Win; Defining a Worthy Enough Win over Time; Where to Go from Here; 8 Find Your Real Team; What It Means to Find Your Real Team; Finding Your Real Team in the Moment; Decision Point Tool #4: Tapping Your Real Team in a Crisis; Finding Your Real Team over Time; Where to Go from Here

9 Make Positive PlaysWhat It Means to Make Positive Plays; The Five Positive Plays; Decision Point Tool #5: Which Positive Play?; Where to Go from Here; 10 Keep Your Own Score; What It Means to Keep Your Own Score; Keeping Your Own Score in the Moment; Decision Point Tool #6: Mini After-action Review; Keeping Your Own Score over Time; Where to Go from Here; 11 Thriving at Work; The Heart of the Choice; What It Means to Thrive at Work; It Begins with a Decision; 12 It's Bigger Than a Game; Larger Forces at Work; Moving toward Organizational Integrity; Let's Make This Real

Individual and Small-group Activities

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613836076

9781283523622

1283523620

9781605093833

1605093831

OCLC:

727951936