Creating We: Change I-Thinking to We-Thinking and Build a Healthy, Thriving Organization

by Judith E. Glaser

A leading executive coach presents her personal program for modern-day business leadership, explaining how good communication skills and a team-approach can achieve a sense of business unity, commitment, and shared goals.

Genres: Leadership, Business

368 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Judith E. Glaser is the CEO of Benchmark Communications and the chairman of The Creating WE Institute. She consults with CEOs and their teams on elevating levels of engagement, collaboration and innovation. Judith has served as an Adjunct Professor at Wharton and a visiting guest speaker at Harvard, Kellogg, Loyola, University of Chicago, NYU, IIT, University of Stellenbosch, Elisalat Academy, Tsinghua University and others.

Reviews

[KitCat · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was okay. I didn't really get any new ideas from it. I liked a few of the stories she used to explain her examples but I wish she had fleshed them out a bit more.

[Ryan Barretto · Rating 2 out of 5]

The review is 2.5 stars.

The reviews on this book convinced me to read this book, though it's been lying with me for many years. After I completed the book I would say that the reviews show that the author is an excellent facilitator who delivered great results for her clients.

But the book itself was a disappointment. For a start it could be 10o pages shorter because of the amount of repetition and the excessive words to explain an example or a point. The other reason I was disappointed is that I found topics in the book that were modified by the author as if to show original thinking, but was the creation of someone else... eg. what she called the ladder of conclusions is the Chris Argyris' ladder of inference. She talks about emotional intelligence without calling it that.

Other than that, it didn't really tell me what I didn't know already, nor did it offer any additional perspectives on the topic.

So why 2.5 stars instead of 2 stars? There's a chapter which covers emotional intelligence in daily work, that is really well written. Is it worth picking the book up? You decide.