Employalty:How to Ignite Commitment and Keep Top Talent in the New Age of Work

Employalty champions a new way to think about how we employ people and the extraordinary results this shift can produce. Don’t look for the best person for the job, engineer the best job for the person. Finding, keeping, and motivating employees is harder than it ever has been before. This is due, in part, to a collective reckoning that is taking place around how work fits into our lives. But also, companies still don’t know what leads ordinary people to become devoted employees. In the aftermath of decades of overwork - which were followed by a Covid pandemic that took an already exhausted workforce and broke it - the era of trying to find the best person for the job is over. Organizations that want to remain viable must instead engineer the best job for the person. They must reinvent the employee experience to meet the needs and values of a changed workforce. If you run a company and want to find and keep devoted employees – while reaping all the benefits and business results that they produce – you must connect people to their ideal job, doing meaningful work, for a great boss. This is the new blueprint for sparking commitment in the workplace. Get this wrong and, at best, your company, its products, and its performance remain mediocre. At worst, the very existence of your organization is in jeopardy. Get this right and you create an astounding competitive advantage around hiring and retaining talent. You also unlock the door for your company to achieve extraordinary results in business, the kind most organizations desire but few attain. We’re at an adapt-or-die moment for businesses of all sizes and how they think about jobs, employment, motivation, and “work.” The adaptation that must occur centers almost entirely around creating a more humane, more personalized employee experience. This book champions a new way for executives, business owners, and companies to think about how they employ people and the extraordinary results that new way of thinking can produce.