All In: How the Best Managers Create a Culture of Belief and Drive Big Results - Tapa dura

"Gostick and Elton's All In is a treasure map to a company's exponential success. This call-to-action will ignite a culture that inspires passionate interest and meaning in people's lives, yielding their best performance by inspiring more than perspiring." -Peter Guber, Chairman & CEO, Mandalay Entertainment Group & #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Tell To Win "Gostick and Elton have done it again! All In captures more than 20 years of experience about motivation, belief, change management, and, very importantly, what I consider essential to leadership and the ability to change for the better: Agility. This book will help the reader assess whether a culture of high performance exists in his/her organization and find the ways to create one if it is absent." -Jean-Luc Butel, Group President, International, Medtronic Inc. "What could you learn from 300,000 people who thrived in the toughest economy in seventy years? Read this book and find out. Want to thrive yourself? Follow Gostick and Elton's fascinating, fun, and potent principles and you will." -Joseph Grenny, New York Times bestselling co-author of Change Anything and Crucial Conversations "I loved this book! The stories will resonate and be repeated on a daily basis by leaders who understand that their greatest responsibility is to create and sustain a high performing culture. This book is a prescription for doing just what all new and experienced leaders dream of doing. It is a fabulous and fun read and one I recommend for all levels of any and every organization." -Ann Rhoades, Founding Executive Vice President of People, JetBlue Airways; President, People Ink; and bestselling author, Built on Values "At Cigna ... our success is dependent on our employees being passionate about the opportunity and responsibility to make a difference. In All In, Gostick and Elton provide a roadmap for every manager to help build a culture of possibility that drives bottom-line results for customers and companies." -David Cordani, President and CEO, Cigna Corporation

Gostick and Elton teamed up with major consultancy Towers Watson to conduct a study that combined the results of a survey of over one million employees at hundreds of companies with data about those companies financial results and other measures of success such as turnover and customer satisfaction. The data reveals that today's high-performance organisations have a distinctive kind of culture in which employees believe in their leaders and the company's mission, values, and goals. They begin by reporting on the results of studies that show that the manager's approach to leading really can have a dramatic impact on the whole culture of his or her department or division. Moving on to present their seven step process for creating that kind of culture, they delve into the specific "how tos" for each of the seven steps, offering detailed insights into the methods to follow.