Reality-Based Leadership: Ditch the Drama, Restore Sanity to the Workplace, and Turn Excuses Into Results

Written by Cy Wakeman

Narrated by Deanna Hurst

Recent polls show that 71% of workers think about quitting their jobs every day. That number would be shocking-if people actually were quitting. Worse, they go to work, punching time clocks and collecting paychecks, while completely checked out emotionally. In Reality-Based Leadership, expert Fast Company blogger Cy Wakeman reveals how to be the kind of leader who changes the way people think about and perceive their circumstances-one who deals with the facts, clarifies roles, gives clear and direct feedback, and insists that everyone do the same-without drama or defensiveness. Filled with dynamic examples, innovative tools, and diagnostic tests, this book shows you how to become a Reality-Based Leader, revealing how to:

Uncover destructive thought patterns with yourself and others
Diffuse drama and lead the person in front of you
Stop managing and start leading, empowering others to focus on facts and think for themselves
Equipped with a facts-based, confident approach, you will free yourself from the frustrations you face at work and transform yourself into a Reality-Based Leader, with the ability to liberate and inspire others.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Release date: Sep 3, 2020
• ISBN: 9781705007969

Cy Wakeman

CY WAKEMAN is a drama researcher, international leadership speaker, and consultant. In 2001 she founded Reality-Based Leadership. She is the author of Reality-Based Leadership, No Ego, and the New York Times bestseller The Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace. In 2017, she was named as one of the Top 30 Global Leadership Gurus by Global Gurus, a Top 100 Leadership Expert to Follow on Twitter, and was deemed "the secret weapon to restoring sanity to the workplace." She lives in Omaha, Nebraska.

Reviews for Reality-Based Leadership

[emcglamery · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Hyper-capitalistic propaganda that sees employees purely as a resource to produce profits for shareholders at any expense. A strange and somewhat toxic take on standard pro-employer business practices and theories.

While some of the suggested skill sets are absolutely essential practices in every day life, they are skills that take time to master, and this book encourages management to use them as a means to force employees to fall into line. Heavily pushes radical acceptance and self accountability, which are both good skills for oneself, but this book encourages managers to force these upon staff. Many of the practices in this book provide an avenue for employers to completely ignore the effects that systemic racism, sexism, bullying, and poor culture can have on employee performance, and instead expects the employee to choose to ignore the wrongs or accept that their dissatisfaction in a toxic environment is their own fault.

Two stars because I did agree with some skill sets that were mentioned. However, I urge readers to use critical thinking, be realistic in incrementing ANY of these practices, and do their own research on the benefits and disadvantages to implementing such practices.