Back to Human: How Great Leaders Create Connection in the Age of Isolation

Back to Human by Dan Schawbel is a practical guide for leaders to build genuine connections with their teams, creating greater fulfillment, productivity, and engagement while preventing burnout and turnover. The book offers a new leadership model featuring The Work-Life Balance Myth, Shared Learning, and more, with interviews with 100 leaders from notable companies and a self-assessment called The Work Connectivity Index.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 05 August 2021
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

A practical guide for leaders to stop using technology as a crutch and start building genuine connections with their teams is presented in the New York Times bestselling book Originals by Adam Grant. Grant explains how a more socially connected workforce creates greater fulfillment, productivity, and engagement while preventing burnout and turnover. In his book, Dan Schawbel, a New York Times bestselling author, guides the next generation of leaders to create a workplace where teammates feel genuinely connected, engaged, and empowered to grow strong interpersonal skills rather than relying on technology.

Based on Schawbel's exclusive research studies featuring the perspectives of over 2,000 managers and employees across different age groups and from the US, UK, China, India, Brazil, and other countries, Back to Human reveals why electronic and virtual communication, though vital and useful, actually contributes to a stronger sense of isolation at work than ever before. The corporate cultures we are experiencing right now need to change, and Schawbel offers a new leadership model featuring The Work-Life Balance Myth (we should consider work-life integration instead, which creates more synergies between all areas of your life and puts you in control of how you allocate your time), Shared Learning (how sharing knowledge allows you to stay relevant despite industry disruptions), and more.

The book includes interviews with 100 leaders from notable companies including Facebook, Honeywell, HBO, Starbucks, General Mills, GE, Nike, American Express, Four Seasons, Walmart, TIME, LinkedIn, and The U.S. Air Force. It also includes a self-assessment called The Work Connectivity Index that measures the strength of team relationships. The book includes exercises, examples, and activities that readers can use to apply the principles outlined in the book to their own work lives.

Weight: 232g
Dimension: 128 x 199 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780349422367