The Win-Win Workplace: How Thriving Employees Drive Bottom-Line Success

By Angela Jackson

Book Overview

An Instant New York Times Bestseller
Winner, 2025 Good Business Book Awards (Business - Management)
Finalist, 2025 IAN Book Awards (Business/Leadership/Management)

What if the most powerful growth strategy in business today isn't AI or cost-cutting--but your people?

In an era defined by talent shortages, employee disengagement, DEI backlash, and pressure for measurable ROI, this groundbreaking leadership book delivers a bold answer: share power to unlock performance.

Based on research from more than 1,200 companies--including Walmart, Google, and JPMorgan Chase--this data-driven business book reveals how employee empowerment, inclusive leadership, and human capital strategy drive profitability, retention, and long-term growth. For the first time, the research quantifies the financial impact of investing in people.

Jackson offers 9 proven strategies:
Centering employee voiceBuilding mutualistic, high-trust workplacesAdvancing intersectional inclusionReimagining employee benefitsActivating frontline leadersHiring STARs (Skilled Through Alternative Routes)Developing deep talent benchesUsing human capital reporting as competitive strategyPracticing distributed leadership
For CEOs, CHROs, HR leaders, and managers, this practical guide shows how equity and profits rise together--proving that people-first leadership is a competitive advantage.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0D6V6B4TN
• ISBN13: 9798890570543
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"