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  • Shifting the Monkey

  • The Art of Protecting Good People from Liars, Criers, and Other Slackers
  • By: Todd Whitaker
  • Narrated by: Scott R. Pollak
  • Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
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Summary

Poor employees get a disproportionate amount of attention. Why? Because they complain the loudest, create the greatest disruptions, and rely on others to assume the responsibilities that they shirk. Learn how to focus on your good employees first, and help them shift these “monkeys” back to the underperformers. Through a simple but brilliant metaphor, Todd Whitaker helps you reinvigorate your staff and transform your organization.

This audio edition includes an exclusive bonus interview with the author, recorded in April 2020. Shifting the Monkey is expertly narrated by Scott Pollak.
©2012 Solution Tree Press (P)2020 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
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Could have been named “How to deal with bad employees”

This book went straight my my top 3 leadership books. It teaches a skill needed that almost no other book touches, namely how to deal with bad employees. It does it in such an elegant way. At the same time it can be applied straight out of the examples and it’s done in an ethical correct way. The powerful part isn’t that it will make you stand out as a good leader to your employees but surprisingly it does it in a more efficient way than the less correct ways. I can not recommend this book enough. Amazing book.

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