Laimės keliu. Tikrieji lyderiai ir jų prioritetai

by Jenn Lim, Romualdas Grigaliūnas (Translator)

Verslo konsultavimo ir ugdymo kompanijos „Delivering Happiness" bendraįkūrėja bei generalinė direktorė Jenn Lim atnaujina laimės skleidimo modelį ir pritaiko jį mūsų naujajai kasdienybei, demonstruodama visų tipų organizacijoms, kaip išugdyti įmonės kultūrą, gebančią prisitaikyti prie pokyčių ir klestėti.

Knygoje „Laimės keliu. Tikrieji lyderiai ir jų prioritetai" organizacinių modelių naujovės prasideda nuo pagrindinio tvarios sėkmės komponento – individo, žinančio savo tikslą ir susiejančio jį su įmonės misija. Nesvarbu, kokį vaidmenį atliekate: vadovaujate įmonei, komandai ar asmeniniam gyvenimui, ši knyga padės jums suvokti savo žmogiškąją esmę ir tikslingai gyventi būtent taip, kaip patys norite.

„The Wall Street Journal" bestseleriu tapusiame veikale autorė aiškiai ir konkrečiai pasakoja, kaip tarpusavyje susaistytame, sparčiai besivystančiame pasaulyje veikia jos modelis, pradedant nuo to, kaip kiekvienas asmuo apibrėžia savo vertybių bei tikslo suvokimą, o tada poveikio bangomis paskleidžia tai visoje organizacijos ekosistemoje.

Genres: Nonfiction, Leadership, Business, Management, Audiobook, Self Help, Buisness

288 pages, Paperback

First published October 12, 2021

About the author

Jenn Lim is the CEO of Delivering Happiness [also known as DH], a company she and Tony Hsieh [the late CEO of Zappos.com] cofounded to create happier company cultures for a more profitable and sustainable approach to business. DH started as a book and evolved into a business consultancy and global movement that has impacted and inspired over 400 companies around the world.

Jenn’s mission is something both simple and profound: to teach businesses how to cultivate cultures that generate profit, sustain all people at every level of the organization with humanity, and share how we can make an impact by being true to our authentic selves. In 2017, Jenn was selected to be on the Global Happiness Council of Work and Wellbeing with the charter to scale the impact she's made in even more sustainable ways. In 2020, DH was on Inc. 5000’s list of fastest growing companies.

You can find Jenn speaking at events around the globe [and in Zoomland], working with organizations to create positive change in the world, or starting spontaneous dance parties with her friends and family.

Reviews

[Nursebookie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I learned a lot listening from this amazing book about leading with authenticity and finding our sense of purpose. As a leader of an organization in the healthcare field, I picked up a lot of practical and actionable advice about starting the change within ourselves in order to find our authentic self in our personal and professional lives.

I feel that this book is a must read for anyone in leadership or strive to lead with happiness and humanity in any organization.

Highly Recommend

[Bryce Mitchell · Rating 1 out of 5]

I’m usually a really big fan of any type of organizational/culture strategy book such as this one. Yet I was very disappointed, for starters the examples of implementation brought up were extremely vague and I had a hard time connecting. There wasn’t anything in here that surprised me or took my breath away.

Also got the vibe that the author was trying to sell me on working for a big business almost and trying to force feed the idea that corporations are good. I have my own biases here but there were some big reaches on the connection of and individuals purposes + values and the organizations.

Finally I may be alone in this but the capitalization of COMMUNITY, ME, WE, etc. I understand these are pillars of the system here but got to pump the brakes on that a little.

[Patrick Dugan · Rating 1 out of 5]

Sexist and racist tirade. Happiness is important, but mainly for everyone who is the same gender as the author, or anyone in the protected classes created by author’s gender.

Good lord, leave your cult ideas out of a business book. And don’t smuggle them in like your cult’s ideas are going to last forever.

Your cult is immoral, racist, and sexist — but at least your cult creed tells you the exact opposite — so tho you can’t spell cognitive dissonance, you can avoid it…thanks to your stupid stupid cult.

[Cj 888 · Rating 1 out of 5]

Very tough to read, and I basically lost interest around 70-80 pages in.

From what I gathered is, there is another book Delivering happiness, and she has very close ties to Zappos founder. That has created a spinoff company Delivering happiness.

From there they are intertwining bringing happiness culture into business world.

The examples used overlook the reasons companies are profitable.

Maybe I missed something, it was just a lot of examples and anecdotes that were used to present a point that didn't seem to be going anywhere.

[Tina · Rating 2 out of 5]

There is some excellent guidance in this book about how to define your purpose and values, but it lost steam in the last half to third of the book (which I skimmed). The examples were pretty exclusively about how the unicorn or near-unicorn companies we read about all the time have defined their cultures and no focus on small business. It didn't feel relatable for those who really could use the direction and I found myself disappointed.

[Lori · Rating 5 out of 5]

Had the chance to meet this amazing author, Jenn Lim - she is just as kind and curious as her book makes you think she is.

How leaders of all walks of career can build and support a workplace where their colleagues feel connected and valued. Especially loved the analogy to the greenhouse and how to create the condition for personal and organizational growth.

We should all want each other to thrive. Me -> We.

[Paula Kirman · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought the book was going to talk more about the theory of authentic leadership, which I was researching, but it is more about creating a purpose and people-driven organizational culture. I didn't find the case studies overly compelling - I keep reading over and over about Starbucks as a case example, and the company's current union busting doesn't inspire confidence.

[Jen · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't think this book was for me, but I could see it being helpful and informative to someone in more leadership roles. I was hoping for more of an understanding of what a good and ideal work culture looks like, but it is more of a how to be a better leader kind of book. Important, but not for me.

[Kate (kate_reads_)]

DNF at 16%. I like the concept of this book but so far don’t feel like I’m learning anything and it isn’t keeping my attention. That may come later but it’s lost me. Thank you to the publisher for the free audiobook.

[Mrs Mommy Booknerd http://mrsmommybooknerd.blogspot.com · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am always looking to be a better leader and this book really gave me a lot if insight on how to do that! I feel like this is a book I will refer back to on a regular basis! It is one that I know I am still thinking about and implementing things I have learned into my everyday life!

[Stephen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Was disappointed--it felt like a long advertisement for Delivering Happiness, and didn't touch on obvious things like the controversies behind Tony Hsieh's mismanagement of the Downtown Project and the Gravity Payment CEO's misconduct.

[Riki · Rating 5 out of 5]

I learned a lot listening from this amazing book about leading with authenticity and finding our sense of purpose. i wiaam rifqi can many learn from this book

[Leland Roling · Rating 2 out of 5]

Just seemed like a lot of captain obvious stuff with a sprinkling of good examples.

[Michael · Rating 3 out of 5]

The overall theme of this book is great. Unfortunately, like many books released after 2020, there’s too much social justice nonsense that clouds the positive message.

[Guillermo Ortiz · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was sold this book by the the bookstore with the idea of helping me navigating my current job, as we have some issues in terms of culture and alignment.
It has helped: yes. It's what I expected: not at all.

It's too broad and deep that becomes far from pragmatic or useful. It contains a lot of anecdotical facts about big corporations, and it assumes some good and happiness principles were the key to success.
You know the famous Carl Sagan saying "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"; well, this book provides no evidence.

I would recommend as a kind of self-help for you and partially your team.