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An instant New York Times bestseller!
Winner of the 2025 Good Business Book Awards in Business - Management
Finalist in the 2025 IAN Book Awards for Business Leadership/Management

Do you want the key to driving equity and skyrocketing profits? It's simple: hand over control to your workers.

Based on research from over 1,200 companies, including WalMart, Google, and JPMorgan Chase, this book follows real-world cases from companies where employees evolved from silent contributors to masterminds steering corporate strategies. These cases are the vanguard of a vibrant era in which workers will be the architects of their destinies, shaping not just their own careers but the entire trajectories of their organizations. Her work has quantified the financial impact investing in people can have on an organization--the first reliable calculation in the literature of talent retention.

From this research, 9 key strategies emerged:

Centering employee voices
Mutualistic working relationships
Intersectional inclusion strategies
Reimaging employee benefits
Frontline leader driven strategies
Hire STARS
Develop deep talent benches
Human capital reporting as a competitive strategy
Distributed leadership

This book goes deeper to show how these strategies are working in the real-world today. When workers have stakes, everyone scores: businesses surge, and teams ride a high they've never felt before. This is a win-win proposition: both management and labor win when you put people first.