The Win-Win Workplace - by Angela Jackson (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

An instant New York Times bestseller!

Do you want the key to driving equity and skyrocketing profits? It's simple: hand over control to your workers.

Discover 9 strategies to create better, healthier workplaces, grounded in evidence-based research.

This revolutionary guide aims to revolutionize the workplace for justice, equity, and profitability by handing the reins over to the real drivers of success: the workers.

Based on research from over 1,200 companies, including WalMart, Google, and JPMorgan Chase, this book follows real-world cases from companies where employees evolved from silent contributors to masterminds steering corporate strategies. These cases are the vanguard of a vibrant era in which workers will be the architects of their destinies, shaping not just their own careers but the entire trajectories of their organizations. Her work has quantified the financial impact investing in people can have on an organization--the first reliable calculation in the literature of talent retention.

From this research, 9 key strategies emerged:

• Centering employee voices
• Mutualistic working relationships
• Intersectional inclusion strategies
• Reimaging employee benefits
• Frontline leader driven strategies
• Hire STARS
• Develop deep talent benches
• Human capital reporting as a competitive strategy
• Distributed leadership

This book goes deeper to show how these strategies are working in the real-world today. When workers have stakes, everyone scores: businesses surge, and teams ride a high they've never felt before. This is a win-win proposition: both management and labor win when you put people first.

Review Quotes

"This work is a game-changer for understanding how employee voice drives business success and also how transforming approaches to talent management builds stronger companies."
--Joseph Nolan, Chairman, President, and CEO, Eversource Energy

"Jackson's work navigates the tensions inherent to business, offering a solution that's data- and people-driven, as well as strategic and tactical, and values workers' skills and their well-being. This holistic approach deserves attention."
--Ginni Rometty, former Chairman, President, and CEO, IBM, and author of Good Power

"This book is a powerful guide for any leader looking to create a workplace where employees and the business can flourish together."
--Gerald Chertavian, Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School, and founder of Year Up United

"A thoughtful exploration of the modern workplace and an effective case for why centering employee voices is key to a more engaged workforce and resilient business."
--Lindsay Kaplan, cofounder of Chief

"Any employer looking to learn about the benefits and approaches to skills-based hiring would benefit from Jackson's work."
--Byron Auguste, CEO and Cofounder, Opportunity@Work

About the Author

Angela Jackson is a nationally recognized expert on the future of work. Her ideas have been featured recently in Quartz, Stanford Social Innovation Review, CNN, Blavity, and Harvard Business Review. She is the founder of Future Forward Strategies, a labor market intelligence and strategy firm that helps leaders transform organizations and human capital infrastructures to enable public, private, and nonprofit organizations to stay competitive while creating positive impact. She is also a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she teaches the next generation of students about entrepreneurship in the education marketplace.