A book for change at work
Own Your Armor
Working with other people is supposed to be more productive and efficient, but too often work gets bogged down by bad team dynamics. Even when leaders and team members want things to change, fixing an unhealthy work culture isn’t easy. Obvious solutions often backfire; reasonable interventions create defensiveness and greater frustration. Own Your Armor is a guide to defusing those vicious cycles and shifting stuck mindsets to build trust and unlock individual and team strengths.
What’s Inside
A master class on team dynamics in a picture book- yes! Only someone with Michelle Brody’s experience and wisdom could do that! Read this book and learn from the best!
— Amy Hayes, Global Head, Learning and Development at Meta (Facebook)
This ground-breaking book is an incredible contribution to our field. Own Your Armor reveals with great clarity and precision the fundamental drivers of dysfunctional behaviors on teams, the common interpersonal conflicts in the work-place, and the pervasiveness of fear in corporate life. Wise and compassionate, it offers an accessible understanding of psychological defenses, how they are evoked by modern day workplaces and can lead to toxicity on teams. Own Your Armor will swiftly take its rightful place as a seminal book on organizational culture and will enable executive teams to address, at their root, the inhibitors to trust, authenticity and high performance.
— Amy Elizabeth Fox, CEO, Mobius Executive Leadership
Working closely and intensively with Michelle early in my senior management career was a formative experience. Not only did she have an intuitive understanding of what makes people and teams work, but she also made the process fun and entertaining. Her illustrated book follows this same pattern - it’s fun, insightful, pragmatic and, in the end, enchantingly helpful.
— Roy Harvey, President and CEO of Alcoa
A wonderful book, so full of insight and humanity. Own Your Armor is a delightful and informative look at the psychological dynamics of work teams. The lucid writing and engaging illustrations will leave you educated, entertained and with new tools to make an immediate difference in your functioning as a leader or team member--and in the other relationships in your life.
— William J. Doherty, Ph.D., Professor, University of Minnesota, Director of the Minnesota Couples on the Brink Project, and Co-Founder of Braver Angels