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David Burkus argues that the traditional management playbook is full of outdated, counterproductive practices, and he reveals how the alternative management revolution has already started at companies like Netflix, Zappos, Google, and others. Burkus investigates behind their office doors to show how these companies are reevaluating and reinventing the most basic management principles, like hiring, firing, vacation policy, and even office floor plan, and enhancing their business’s success as a result.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Is your company ready for a radical departure from twentieth-century management standards? David Burkus has collected the stories of dozens of companies that are standing the old rules on their heads. Even better, Burkus shows how you can do it, too.”—Daniel H. 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Pay people to quit?  Celebrate departures?  Burkus masterfully questions so-called \"best practices” and illustrates how today’s leading companies are unleashing human talent.  If you want to stay ahead in the new game of work, read this book!  -\u003cstrong\u003eLiz Wiseman\u003c\/strong\u003e, bestselling author of MULTIPLIERS and ROOKIE SMARTS     On \u003cem\u003eSeinfeld\u003c\/em\u003e, perpetual screw-up George Constanza eventually realized that since every impulse he had turned out to be wrong, if he simply did the opposite he would succeed. 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