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Jack Skeels

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Jack Skeels, a former think-tank researcher at RAND, is an award-winning author and Inc. 500 entrepreneur. His recent book, UNMANAGED: Master the Magic of Creating Empowered and Happy Organizations, has received accolades from industry and reviewers, most recently winning the Gold Medal for Independent Thought Leadership in the prestigious Axiom 2024 Business Book Awards. As CEO of AgencyAgile, he has been published and featured over 35 times including: Wall Street Journal, Ad Age, Entrepreneur.com, AdWeek, Campaign, PR News, Business Horizons, Training, and numerous other publications.

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The Quiet Violence of Caring

(with apologies to Nietzsche)

To speak is to steer.

Even the gentlest words are not free of force.

“I’m sorry you’re feeling that way” — meant as care, offered with softness — may land like shrapnel.

Because words don’t just move forward.

They ricochet through memory.

They awaken ghosts we didn’t summon, in places we’ve never been.

For the wounded, being seen can feel like being hunted.

For the unhealed,

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Jack Skeels answered Goodreads's question: Where did you get the idea for your most recent book? I tell the story briefly at the front of UNMANAGED: I was running the LA office of a large global agency, and I was laid off during the GED in 2009. During my exit interview, my boss, who had been almost entirely useless during my time there, said to See Full Answer
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“Unmanaged” deconstructs the discipline of management and makes the compelling case that knowledge workers perform much more effectively for “Humble Gardeners” than “Angry Ranchers.” With decades of experience working with hundreds of professional service firms, Jack Skeels presents a convincing case for how the chronically misunderstood agile framework can produce transformational results.”
― Tim Williams

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“Unmanaged is one of those rare books that helps you see that the answers to your most pressing organizational problems are the opposite of what you thought they were.”
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