Description
Healthy compromise is necessary for accomplishing any meaningful goal with other people. But when your job presses you to betray your word, your principles, or other important commitments, it becomes profoundly unhealthy and deeply stressful. And it can happen even while working for an organization or leader you otherwise respect and admire.
Elizabeth Doty offers the antidote: redefining the game. When you feel pressured to play by rules that undermine your integrity, Doty shows how you can tap into six personal foundations that will allow you to stay true to your deepest values and aspirations. Through more than fifty vivid firsthand accounts of compromise and courage in business, she provides guidance for anyone at any organizational level who wants to act with greater clarity, strength, and purpose, as well as for senior leaders striving to lead organizations that allow people to remain true to themselves. The Compromise Trap details a strategy that enables you to remain a positive force—for yourself and whatever you define as the greater good—no matter how difficult the circumstances.
Chapter
Healthy and Unhealthy Compromise
Healthy and Unhealthy Pressure
Thriving at Work without Selling Your Soul
2 A Devil’s Bargain by Degrees
An Appreciative Inquiry into the “Dark Side” of Work
General Pressure to Conform
Routine Pressure to Compromise
Making a Gradual Deal with the Devil
How Playing Along Becomes a Trap
How Do You Know If You’re in the Compromise Trap?
3 Ten Misconceptions about Compromise at Work
Misconception 1: Compromise Is Always Healthy
Misconception 2: Good Companies Don’t Create Unhealthy Pressure
Misconception 3: Unhealthy Pressure Is the Leader’s Fault
Misconception 4: You Have to Go Along to Survive
Misconception 5: You’ll Always Know If You’re Crossing a Line
Misconception 6: The Company Sets the Terms
Misconception 7: You Should Just Say No
Misconception 8: Refusing to Compromise Means Fighting Back
Misconception 9: You Thrive When You Get to the Top
Misconception 10: Individual Integrity Adds Up to Organizational Integrity
4 How Do I Redefine the Game?
Welcome to the Parallel Universe
What It Means to Redefine the Game
Creating Room to Redefine Your Game
Do I Have to Leave to Engage at a Higher Level?
5 Reconnect to Your Strengths
What It Means to Reconnect to Your Strengths
Reconnecting to Your Strengths in the Moment
Decision Point Tool #1: Activating Your Strengths
Reconnecting to Your Strengths over Time
What It Means to See the Larger Field
Seeing the Larger Field in the Moment
Decision Point Tool #2: Questioning the Deal
Seeing the Larger Field over Time
7 Define a Worthy Enough Win
What It Means to Define a Worthy Enough Win
Defining a Worthy Enough Win in the Moment
Decision Point Tool #3: Defining Your Worthy Enough Win
Defining a Worthy Enough Win over Time
What It Means to Find Your Real Team
Finding Your Real Team in the Moment
Decision Point Tool #4: Tapping Your Real Team in a Crisis
Finding Your Real Team over Time
What It Means to Make Positive Plays
Decision Point Tool #5: Which Positive Play?
What It Means to Keep Your Own Score
Keeping Your Own Score in the Moment
Decision Point Tool #6: Mini After-action Review
Keeping Your Own Score over Time
What It Means to Thrive at Work
It Begins with a Decision
12 It’s Bigger Than a Game
Moving toward Organizational Integrity
Individual and Small-group Activities
Activity #1: Finding the Strengths in Your Story
Activity #2: Redefining-the-game Opportunity Map
Activity #3: Discovering Your Professional Quest
Activity #4: Strengthening Your Connections with Allies
Activity #5: Redefining-the-game Action Planning
Activity #6: Personal Goal Review
Diagnostic Questionnaires
Individual and Small-group Activities
Professional Quest Groups
More about the Interviews
The Compromise Trap
：How to Thrive at Work Without Selling Your Soul
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