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Connectedness
How the Best Leaders Create Authentic Human Connection in a Disconnected World

Des Dearlove (Author), Lisa Humphries (Author)

9781394285778, Wiley

Hardback, published 4 November 2024

352 pages
23.1 x 15.5 x 3.3 cm, 0.567 kg

Improve talent retention and employee productivity by encouraging connectedness in your firm

In Connectedness, British business journalist and management theorist Des Dearlove delivers an insightful and practical discussion of how firms can build meaningful and authentic connections with their employees, encouraging productivity, improving talent retention, and creating an enduring competitive advantage. You’ll find out why the latest peer-reviewed research lends support to the notion that it is the nature of interpersonal environments – and not compensation – that many employees consider to be the most impactful when they’re deciding whether to exit a job.

In the book, you’ll:

  • Explore the most important factors that determine the connectedness of a healthy working environment
  • Common mistakes and myths about employee wellbeing that sidetrack managerial efforts to improve working culture at a firm
  • Examples and case studies that demonstrate the real-world impact of the ideas discussed in the book

Perfect for managers, executives, directors, and other business leaders seeking to improve employee retention, productivity, engagement, and health, Connectedness is also a must-read resource for employees, human resources professionals, consultants, and everyone else with an interest in employee wellbeing and workplace productivity and safety.

Foreword by Rita McGrath ix

Introduction by Des Dearlove & Lisa Humphries 1

I We, Human 9

1 Every Working Relationship Can Be Better: Here’s How 11
Michael Bungay Stanier

2 The Four- day Week: Here’s Why 17
Andrew Barnes

3 Why We Lost Touch with Each Other and How We Reconnect 25
Pia Lauritzen

4 One Simple Change to Improve Your Connections 33
Amanda Nimon-Peters

5 Connection Through Communication 45
Matt Abrahams Copyrighted Material

6 The Power of Pausing 53
Jeanette Bronée

II Ai and US 63

7 AI and the Future of Human Connection 65
Kate O’Neill

8 Tech Is Cool, but People Are Warm 77
Giuseppe Stigliano

9 Ask Not What AI Can Do for You— Ask What You Can Do for AI, to Serve Humanity 85
Hamilton Mann

10 The Case for Humanity in the AI Era 101
Stephanie LeBlanc-Godfrey

11 Human Against the Machine in Forecasting 109
Ville Satopää

III Inclusive Leadership 117

12 Four Simple Words to Help Connect with Others 119
Kirstin Ferguson

13 How to Build Your Human Touch 127
Susie Kennedy

14 Five Ways to Develop Your Meeting Intelligence 137
Soulaima Gourani & Thomas Roulet

15 The UNITE Framework to Build Social Connection at Work 147
Constance Noonan Hadley

16 Devotion and Detachment: The Yin- Yang Equilibrium for Transformative Growth 159
Faisal Hoque

IV Connecting Culture 171

17 Win- Win-Win: When Human Purpose Meets Platform Thinking 173
Daniel Trabucci & Tommaso Buganza

18 Organizational Purpose and Action: Who Sets the Table? 187
Weslynne Ashton

19 The AI- powered Organization: Puzzles to Be Solved 195
Martin Gonzalez

20 Cultivating Active Allyship 209
Poornima Luthra

21 Remote— But Not Disconnected 217
Malissa Clark

V Open Minds 229

22 Making Human Connection Neuroinclusive 231
Ludmila Praslova

23 Inclusion Is the Foundation for Human Connection 243
Mita Mallick

24 Beyond the Individual: The Power of Community 253
Neri Karra Sillaman

25 Empathy 263
Kai Anderson

VI People Pleasers 271

26 How to Avoid Burnout Through the Power of Human Connection 273
Kandi Wiens

27 Leading Gen Z 285
Jenny Fernandez

28 How to Develop Strategic People 297
David Lancefield

29 Your Imagination Is Your Currency 307
Natalie Nixon

 About the Editors 315

Acknowledgments 317

Index 319

Subject Areas: Business & management [KJ]
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