The Goldilocks Team: Master Retention and Hiring
by Minal Joshi Jaeckli
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Pub Date Feb 20 2025 | Archive Date Sep 15 2025
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Description
We all have a universal desire to work with great people, but they can be hard to find and even harder to keep for the long-term. Leaders facing disengaged employees, high turnover rates, and fierce competition for skilled professionals, know too well that the cost of losing talent goes beyond financial impacts, it disrupts your organization, stunts innovation and undermines your competitive position.
In The Goldilocks Team: Master Retention and Hiring, you’ll take an illuminating (and entertaining!) deep dive into the core drivers of employee engagement, the evolution of workplace culture, values alignment, and interpersonal alignment, and learn how to:
• Address the root causes of turnover and improve retention
• Implement practical, immediately actionable tactics to engage your team
• Align your organization's retention strategies with employee values for lasting success
• Build high-performing teams that deliver for the long-term, without guesswork
Whether you're a seasoned business leader or a new manager, this provides a clear roadmap to keep your existing team members engaged for the long-term and to successfully hire top talent that is positioned to thrive within your organization.
Ready to build a team that’s high-performing, fully engaged and loyal? This book will show you how.
Advance Praise
Kirkus Reviews:
A practical, data-driven approach to building teams that excel.
The author breaks down employee engagement into four different categories: safety and certainty, contribution and purpose, growth and significance, and connection and belonging. Regarding employee retention, Jaeckli writes that HR is not the department best suited to address such issues, as the direct manager wields the most influence. Engagement and retention, the author asserts, are leadership responsibilities, and they start with hiring the right person for a particular job.
A bracing wake-up call to leaders mired in old ways of employee engagement and retention.
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Likely Story Blog:
In The Goldilocks Team, Minal Joshi Jaeckli delivers a refreshingly insightful and practical framework for building highly engaged, high-performing teams in a time when traditional hiring practices are breaking down. Through sharp storytelling, strategic thinking, and deeply personal experience, she challenges business leaders to rethink everything they know about employee engagement.
The writing style is candid and witty, laced with clever analogies (Cinderella hiring, diffused culture, stale shipwrecks), making even complex topics approachable. Jaeckli doesn't shy away from naming what's broken-outdated job descriptions, misaligned onboarding, superficial perks-and offers concrete suggestions for building real alignment between individual motivation and organizational goals.
Overall, The Goldilocks Team is more than a leadership guide-it's a manifesto for how the modern workplace needs to evolve. Insightful, smart, and surprisingly entertaining, this is a must-read for leaders ready to build organizations where people feel purpose, not just pressure.
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Readers' Favorite:
The Goldilocks Team is a book that every modern manager, team leader, or business executive must have on their shelf. It will help you hire loyal and committed people who are in for the long haul and whose values align with the organization's objectives. If you're a business owner, entrepreneur, manager, or executive, do not miss out on this book.
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Reedsy Discovery:
A clear roadmap for leaders who want to master the art of employee engagement, hiring, alignment, and retention.
The strategies in The Goldilocks Team: Master Retention and Hiring are beneficial to new managers or seasoned business leaders.
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Self Publishing Review:
Discussing the full spectrum of professional, personal, emotional, and social factors that affect the success of a workforce, this is a comprehensive and refreshingly candid resource for every level of management.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9798895710890 |
| PRICE | $14.90 (USD) |
| PAGES | 118 |
