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The Compromise Trap: How to Thrive at Work Without Selling Your Soul

The Compromise Trap helps you tell the difference between healthy and unhealthy compromise, and build the six personal foundations that allow you to stay true to yourself and be a positive force in your organization.

The Compromise Trap: How to Thrive at Work Without Selling Your Soul

Elizabeth Doty

Elizabeth Doty is a consultant and coach with a passion for helping leaders increase the engagement, alignment and integrity that allow them to generate extraordinary value. Since 1993, her firm WorkLore has helped organizations such as Intuit, Hewlett Packard, CDM Inc, Stanford University, Skillsoft, and Archstone-Smith improve performance by keeping their commitments real. She has presented at Systems Thinking in Action, the Business Ethics Network, and the Bay Area Society for Organizational Learning and assisted Dr. William Ury in research for his book, The Power of a Positive No. Ms. Doty’s book, The Compromise Trap: How to Thrive at Work without Selling your Soul was published by Berrett-Koehler in 2009.

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Using Compromise to Diagnose Employee Engagement Issues

Studies show that highly engaged employees exert more "discretionary effort", increasing productivity by up to 25%. Employees’ pride in their work correlates with higher quality, organizational effectiveness and retention. A more recent study shows that highly engaged employees are also more likely to report unethical conduct. Yet these same sources find that engagement tends to erode over time with an organization, despite the negative side effects on effectiveness, quality, customer relationships, safety and risk standards.

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