As strengths guru and bestselling author Marcus Buckingham and Cisco Leadership and Team Intelligence head Ashley Goodall show in this provocative, inspiring book, there are some big lies running through our organizational lives. Nine lies, to be exact. They cause dysfunction, frustration, and ultimately result in a strange feeling of unreality that pervades our workplaces.

But there are those who can get past the lies and discover what's real. With engaging stories and incisive analysis, the authors reveal the essential truths that such freethinking leaders will recognize immediately.

If you embrace each person's uniqueness and see this as key for all healthy organizations; if you reject dogma and engage with the real world; if you seek out emergent patterns and put your faith in evidence, not philosophy; --if you do all of these, then you are a freethinking leader, and this book is for you.