When Work Teaches People To Care Less.
Most organizations say the right things. Purpose. Values. Customer obsession. Employee empowerment. Then they design work that makes those ideas expensive to live out.
Justin Robbins names the gap between stated values and daily work, then gives leaders a clear operating system to close it.
– Dan Gingiss, Customer experience keynote speaker and author, Becoming The Experience Maker
The appendix reads like a 90-day playbook, with step-by-step guidance and exercises that make the concepts immediately usable.
– Beth Gauther-Jenkin, Former VP, Customer Experience & Human Resources, Gopher Sports
More Than a Motto gives leaders practical steps to help employees find deeper meaning in their work.
– Jeff Toister, author, The Service Culture Handbook
Who This Book Is For
If you feel the gap between the work you promise and the work people actually live, this book is for you.
Executives who see trust fraying, decisions slowing, and can’t afford motion without momentum anymore.
CX, service, and operations leaders watching quality slip, rework rise, and exhausted teams hold a fragile customer experience together.
HR and EX leaders stuck with survey scores, rising burnout, and leaders who talk values while systems reward the opposite.
Managers caught between lofty promises and daily trade-offs, taking the blame for a system that quietly burns judgment and energy.
More Than a Motto exposes the costly gap between what leaders say and what the work actually trains people to do.
It shows how pressure, metrics, incentives, and workflows quietly retrain judgment, drain energy, and reshape culture through repetition, not bad intent.
This book explains why motivation campaigns stall, engagement scores plateau, and burnout persists even in “well-run” organizations. It gives leaders a practical operating system to hardwire clarity, connection, and recovery into the rhythm of work so purpose, performance, and people stay aligned under pressure.
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