Unfear: Transform Your Organization to Create Breakthrough Performance and Employee Well-Being

by Gaurav Bhatnagar, Mark Minukas

Two top experts on high-performing organizations show you how to reframe your―and your employees’―relationship with fear and anxiety to create a learning culture of engaged workers at the top of their game. Fear and uncertainty have been undermining performance and well-being in the workplace for as long as we have had workplaces. Here’s a little-known fact of mismanaged fear is responsible for almost all of the dysfunction that most organizations experience. While fear can drive short-term results, it does so at the cost of high employee burnout and turnover. It also undermines long-term business performance. But we can’t eradicate it entirely; it is inherent to the human condition. Winning organizations aren’t fear-free; they know how to reframe fear into opportunities for learning and growth. They create resilient cultures of unfear. In this timely and essential guide, McKinsey alumni Gaurav Bhatnagar and Mark Minukas show This proven approach to workplace anxiety reduces stress, boosts engagement, and overcomes obstacles that get in the way of success. It leads to personal rewards greater profits, and sustainable growth. This is only possible with a culture of unfear.

Genres: Leadership

272 pages, Hardcover

Published December 7, 2021

Reviews

[Racer_rajesh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book - very helpful for leaders thinking about culture change /transformation journey. The applicability of the ideas depends on the size of the company and nature of the operations. Realistic tips from experienced consultants. Adding real life incidents from their life helped to connect with me.

[Monica · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read in galley form. Really powerful treatise on building an organizational culture that can acknowledge and more productively deal with its fears at a personal and systemic level. Distills a lot of other theoretical work on organizational behavior with a unique, practical edge.