Book Review – Make Work Great

Make Work Great: Supercharge Your Team, Reinvent the Culture, and Gain Influence – One Person at a Time

By Ed Muzio

ISBN: 0071622098

Retail: $24.95

Muzio dives headfirst in describing how anybody can influence change inside an organization. He outlines the thinking and the processes that build from person to mini-culture to consistency in establishing a new work environment. These days, workplaces need help coming to grips with new technologies and global demands that reek havoc on relationships and how leaders and managers interact with their people.

 

Muzio refers to his change concept as “Crystal Building” which is the idea that growth, a bit at a time, over time, can give you sustainable results that breaks through legacy, politics, and dysfunction. Muzio offers numerous tools and exercises to help you start the change journey regardless of your level in the organization. Muzio outlines the overtness of actions and clarity in relationships to form a single directive that drives agreements with others. Muzio also understands how certain environments are daunting and is practical about how one navigates the obstacles by role-modeling the desired behaviors and positively reinforcing new behaviors from others.

 

The book serves as a guide - a foundation - to practice and he supports the reading with videos at www.makeworkgreat.com that condense common challenges in digestible chunks. The beauty of Make Work Great is in its completeness. Muzio offers so many insights along the way you feel like you have him coaching you through every professional landmine that could harm your progress. Point is, put to practice, his models and approach work no matter who you are or the type or size of organization.

 

For more information about Ed Muzio and his book, Make Work Great, visit www.groupharmonics.com. Also read my Q&A with Ed about the book.