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Book Description

A “Highest Rated CEO” who has transformed his organization into a billion-dollar company and a “Top Place to Work” shows leaders how truly prioritizing employees isn’t just good for employees—it’s good for business.

Imagine a company where everybody loves to work, where employees feel not just “satisfied” but truly cared for, respected, and energized. Think of the impact this would have on recruitment, retention, customer satisfaction, innovation, and overall performance. Aron Ain, the award-winning CEO of Kronos, a global provider of workforce management and human capital management cloud solutions, believes that anything is possible when people are inspired. By embracing employee development and engagement as a growth strategy, Ain transformed his company’s culture and built a billion-dollar business. This book takes leaders and managers inside Kronos’s highly admired WorkInspired culture, showing them the surprisingly simple rules to follow to replicate that success.

Ain’s inspiring guide reveals the best practices that have earned Kronos distinctions on coveted lists, such as Glassdoor’s 100 Best Places to Work, Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For, Forbes’s America’s Best Employers, and the Boston Globe’s Top Places to Work. These include over-communicating and truth-telling, trusting your people again and again, holding managers accountable for being great at what they do, allowing employees flexible schedules and open vacation time, challenging your people to put the company out of business with new and revolutionary ideas, and welcoming back boomerang employees. Many executives talk about how “their people are their greatest asset.” Ain challenges leaders to “walk the talk” and put people first, whether they oversee a team of five or an organization of 500,000. When they do, employees won’t be the only ones who thank them. Customers and shareholders will, too.

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Author’s Note
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 Become an Un-Leader
  9. 2 Overcommunicate
  10. 3 Trust Them (Again and Again)
  11. 4 Hold Managers Accountable
  12. 5 Get Serious About Strategy
  13. 6 Have Fun
  14. 7 Astonish Them with Kindness
  15. 8 Keep Your People Safe
  16. 9 Give Employees Their Time Back
  17. 10 Welcome “Boomerang” Employees
  18. 11 Celebrate to Motivate
  19. 12 Respect Everyone’s Culture
  20. 13 Put Yourself Out of Business
  21. 14 Empower the Next Generation
  22. Epilogue
  23. Acknowledgments
  24. A Note on Sources
  25. Notes
  26. Index
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