There Is No Place Like Work: Seven Leadership Insights for Creating a Workplace to Call Home

By Ava Wilensky, Sheila Margolis, Ava Wilensky

Based on hands-on, real-world research and concepts used by CEOs, managers and employees in organizations ranging from Fortune 500 to nonprofit, There Is No Place Like Work shows how organizations... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1586858831
• ISBN13: 9781586858834
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.5"
• Age Range: 20 years and up

Customer Reviews

Extremely Helpful

Excellent Reading! I thoroughly enjoyed it and see how it can be beneficial!!!! I plan to put it to good use!!!

A great primer to a new career!

Do you want to change careers? Do you want to start a business venture? Do you want to be crystal clear as to the direction you want to go with your business? Then might I suggest you read this book. While it is a metaphor to the wizard of oz, it is written beautifully so as to make you decide where you want to go with your business. The information was just enough to get the wheels turning as to what is important and more importantly why? I spent the day pondering the message in the book and created a business model that I am looking forward to implement tomorrow. Good Luck to you.

Tools for an organizational "tune up"!

There Is No Place Like Work...is an excellent tool for an organizational tune-up! My company's vision and mission are current and consistent, we are not looking to start over. But we have many entry level positions and a limited career ladder so we are constantly bringing new people into the organization. Using the tools that are provided in the book helped us to sharpen our presentations (tell our story)better, internally and to outside audiences. Additionally, we use the principals in our strategic leadership team as part of our planning process. This book is a winner!

Fantastic!!

Whether you're starting a brand new business or have been at the helm for 20 years, Ava and Sheila's 5 P's put workplace culture simply and concisely into perspective. From the first page to the last, you will find yourself fascinated by how easily their insights can be plugged right into your situation. This book will absolutely increase your bottom line!

On Their Way to a Best Seller

Ava and Sheila have put together a game plan for changing workplace cultures, simple, straight-forward, understandable...POWERFUL! They have done a wonderful job! We're not in Kansas and the culture you create as a leader cannot be taken for granted anymore. Today's workforce is well educated and very fluid, and is simply unwilling to put up with a culture that does not truly engage people's passions through their jobs. Organizations that succeed in the future will have one thing in common, an engaging, energizing, uplifting culture where employees thrive because management "gets it". How do you get that kinda culture? Read the book...you'll luv it! Mick Hager Author of MONKEY BUSINESS, 7 Laws of the Jungle for Becoming the Best of the Bunch! A Short Tale of a Company That Gets It! Gibbs Smith Publisher, March 2007