What decides whether your team commits, or just complies?
Good enough is the most expensive ceiling in your business: the level where a team that could commit settles for complying, and everyone agrees, without ever saying so, not to notice. This book is about what's holding that ceiling in place, and how to lift it, off your people, your operation, and everything they're capable of.
That's the problem.
You've run the engagement survey. You've stood up the contests and the bonuses, the employee of the month, the pizza on a Friday. You've paid for the accountability workshop and the manager-effectiveness module. Attendance was good. The scores moved a point. And by next quarter the survey told you anonymously what your people had no other way to say.
Good Enough is built on three decades inside operations, the testimony of the people who lived it, and case studies from global brands, elite sport and organizations that run on respect instead of oversight. You'll learn why the commitment you're chasing was never missing, what those scores have been measuring instead, and why some of your people already treat the place as if it were theirs.
You'll stop paying for programs that measure the problem and start removing what causes it. Take away what's in the way and you get a team that doesn't need watching. And you find out what becomes possible when you're leading instead of correcting.
That's the leader you got into this to be.
What leaders are saying
Most leadership books are additive. Davide Di Giorgio does the unexpected and shows you what to remove.
This book belongs on the desk of any leader who wants a team that performs out of care, not correction.
Commitment cannot be demanded or inspected into existence. It emerges when leaders remove the barriers that keep people from believing, caring, and taking ownership.
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Put it to work
Read it. Run it with your team. And if you loved it, an honest review is always welcome, never required.
Davide Di Giorgio
Davide Di Giorgio is an operations and leadership advisor and a keynote speaker. He works with executive teams and multi-unit operators on the question this book asks: what makes a team perform when nobody is watching.
His work spans three decades, from resort floors to airline cabins, from the classroom to the boardroom, from opening night to opening day. The constant is high performance under pressure, and the leaders who make it possible.
He is the author of Being Unapologetic, a #1 Amazon bestseller in eight countries. His TEDx talk, Overcoming Comparanoia™, examines the cycle that stops capable people short, and his keynote, From Correction to Commitment, takes him to leadership and operational audiences around the world.
The book is where it starts
Most books get read once and shelved. This one is built to be run. The Team Read Experience turns Good Enough into six conversations, each ending on a single real decision your team is accountable to.
Find out what's in the way
Chapter one arrives straight away, with a heads-up before it launches and the link the day it's out.