How to Read The Wisdom Story: How to Create a High-Performing Company Culture and Transform Results PDF
While experiencing firsthand the chaos at Wisdom Health Care Center, Grace Holden, its new CEO, questions if she made the right decision in accepting the job. Yet Grace knows she couldn’t have turned it down. It was an opportunity she had worked for her entire career. Still, what she could not have anticipated was just how broken the culture was at the health care center. She quickly discovers Wisdom will challenge her in ways she never imagined. In The Wisdom Story, best-selling author Tim Burningham presents another compelling and enlightening leadership fable. Using his storytelling prowess, he delves into the important and elusive concept of how to build a high-performing company culture. As a new CEO, Grace confronts the ultimate leadership challenge: turning around a toxic workplace culture and transforming results at an institution with a long track record of poor performance. Will she find a way to succeed? Will she be able to save the center? Or will she eventually be replaced like so many leaders before her? Burningham’s captivating story provides a reminder that leadership requires both commitment and determination. Throughout the book, Burningham explores the four essential elements for building a high-performing culture. He offers a powerful model and provides actionable strategies that can be applied to overcome the common flaws of a toxic culture and in turn produce the ingredients needed to create a healthy one. The Wisdom Story is a must-read leadership book with a surprisingly simple yet effective guide for all who strive to create exceptional company cultures.
