Books by Carol Sanford

Award-winning author, expert speaker and executive coach, Carol Sanford, borrows the concept of regeneration from biology and uniquely applies it personal growth to reveal a new way to produce and inspire change in the world.

Award-winning author, expert speaker and executive coach, Carol Sanford, borrows the concept of regeneration from biology and uniquely applies it to business strategy with an emphasis on: human potential, work systems,resilience and growth.

Feedback is the Foundation for Improving Employee Performance...but does it help employees realize their full potential?  Does it even improve a company’s bottom line?Business educator Carol Sanford has spent 40 years developing people and systems to embed lasting innovation into daily work. Fortune 500 companies like Google, P&G and DuPont hired her to developo executives to rethink strategy, leadership, management and work design. By popular demand, her new book series takes on the most common toxic practices hurting business today and presents the surprising remedies to achieve extraordinary outcomes. Management depends on feedback to improve employee performance and the company’s bottom line. Peer reviews are often foundational to this process. But is this decades-old tradition getting the results you need? No More Feedback: Cultivating Consciousness at Work, Book 1 in Carol Sanford’s new Toxic Practice book series, breaks down the misconceived notions on feedback and reveals the systems needed to achieve the results business really want: employees fulfilling their potential.This book disrupts commonly-held beliefs by explaining:How feedback can (and often does!) ruin employee development.The impact of feedback on 3 core human capacities.The 6 premises to develop effective work systems and the people in them.How to see business as a living ecosystem set up for accelerating growth and success.The developmental alternative to feedback that leads to flourishing, self-regulating employeesPacked with true examples from Carol’s extensive career and personal stories, No More Feedback: Cultivating Consciousness at Work identifies the flaws in the feedback trap, why employees should be given the power to self-regulate and the tools essential to long-term developmental success. 

"Individuals, acting on deeply held beliefs and passion, are boldly imagining and bringing into existence a different world. Whether you're a business entrepreneur, a social entrepreneur, an investment entrepreneur, or an academic, artistic, or civil servant entrepreneur, devour this important and wise book.

"When most people think of corporate responsibility, they are focusing on a business's effect on and relationship to stakeholders. A Responsible Business sees stakeholders as full partners and meaningful instruments for the evolution of healthier communities and more successful businesses.