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The Book - Rethink Work
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Most books on the FUTURE OF WORK tell you what is changing. This one tells you what to build.
The insight behind Rethink Work began with a straightforward question: why do smart, well-resourced organizations with talented, motivated people keep watching those people leave — and keep being surprised by it?
Most books on the FUTURE OF WORK tell you what is changing. This one tells you what to build.
Eric Termuende spent nearly a decade finding the answer. He surveyed tens of thousands of employees. He spent time inside the organizations that kept their best people and the ones that kept losing them. He looked for the variable that explained the difference. He expected to find something sophisticated. What he found was structural.
THE ARCHITECTURE, SECTION BY SECTION.
The reason the programs keep failing is not that the people running them are bad at their jobs. It is that they are solving the wrong problem.
THE ARCHITECTURE, SECTION BY SECTION.
Disengagement, burnout, and turnover are not people problems. They are design problems. Part One makes the case for this, with research and with the specific patterns Eric found across hundreds of organizations. By the end of this section, the reader cannot unsee the architectural nature of what is happening on their team.
THE ARCHITECTURE, SECTION BY SECTION.
Not the inspirational kind. The operational kind. Part Two establishes what trust is in an organizational context, how it is built through specific, repeatable behaviors, what erodes it faster than anything else, and why it is the load-bearing wall that everything else in The Blueprint rests on. Leaders leave this section with a trust audit they can run on their team immediately.