Stuck provides deep lessons from research and clear steps for readers to use these lessons in their work. In this way, the book serves as a guide to those leaders, managers, and employees who are ready to be unStuck.
Our work life is changing. Every day new companies, technologies, and ideas emerge that impact how, where, and most importantly, why we work. Despite this exciting evolution, people remain the heart of change. People are tricky. People don’t seem to evolve as fast as global trends. People get stuck. Teams have people moving at different speeds with different levels of adoption in our evolving workplace. Some evolve and some don’t. Teams get stuck. Leaders, managers, and teammates struggle with this resistance and get frustrated. Frustrated people impact the performance of every organization. Organizations get stuck.
Why? The answer is deeply human and biological, rooted in the way our brain interacts with everything in the world, even work. When people feel they are losing something, they react by getting stuck. Stuck connects over 20 years of research on our brain’s reaction to the evolving workplace with real stories of people journeying through the challenge of being stuck. The organizations, leaders, and managers who understand these concepts will evolve in the future. Those organizations will understand LOSS as a tool to achieve business WINS.
