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Title: The Compromise Trap

Subtitle: How to Thrive at Work Without Selling Your Soul

Author: Elizabeth Doty

Narrator: Donna Jenkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-24-13

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Business, Career Skills

Publisher's Summary:

Countless people face "integrity stress" in their daily work - where they feel pressure to compromise their values, life commitments and integrity with no choice but to make a "devil's bargain" at times. This audiobook offers powerful understanding of what is really going on in these compromises, how people can escape the traps and hooks of organizational life by "playing a bigger game" - which allows them to be true to themselves while also contributing more effectively in their work.

Members Reviews:

This a a must-read for today's business climate.

I strongly recommend the Compromise Trap as a practical guide for people at all levels of corporate life as well as others who are seeking to act with more courage and congruency.

The demands of the workplace are challenging at all times and particularly challenging in today's business climate. Well-meaning people at all levels of organizations find themselves facing choices every day that create internal conflicts, confronting them with difficult choices, often resulting in compromises that they might regret later on. Elizabeth Doty's book provides the clearest understanding to date as to how we get ourselves into these traps and how we can work our way through them in ways that support our integrity and self-worth.

The book's description of "Healthy" versus "Unhealthy" compromises lends important insight into how we can navigate through the complexity of our commitments and relationships at work and in our lives. The chapter on "Five Positive Plays" offers excellent and practical advise. There are many other pearls of wisdom and usable tools throughout the book.

A Practical and Effective Resource for Working Ethically

This book is an excellent resource for addressing the need for integrity in business, both organizationally and personally.

What was particularly useful about this book:

* It offers unexpected ways to diagnosis and frame our healthy and unhealthy compromises

* It provides specific exercises and effective ways to achieve greater congruence with our values

* It is applicable to both individuals and organizations

* It provides access to online resources that complement the exercises in the book

As a consultant working with organizations, and committed to social change myself, I was delighted to have found this book. I find it an essential tool for the kind of inner and outer organizational changes that will make it possible to successfully address such issues as climate change, global economic challenges, and creating sustainable ethical business practices.

The book is at once professional, supportive, and encouraging of self-reflection and commitment. It is a great resource for successfully responding to the simultaneous pressures of work, home and world.

Fun!

I didn't know a book about business could be fun to read and a page turner. It makes a case that having a larger vision, which includes caring about others, is best for business as well as for personal growth and lays out the steps that need to be taken. If capitalism is going to keep from floundering this is probably the way it will have to do it.

I recommend this book

Doty's book is a well-written and inspiring work that exposes an elegant truth -- that we can access more strength and personal agency in the workplace than it might seem.