Are you caught in the endless return-to-office debate-defending your decision with spreadsheets and bottom-line arguments while your team remains unconvinced? Do you sense that something vital is slipping away from your company but struggle to articulate what it is?
Tim Carroll, a C-suite executive with decades of leadership experience, has spent his career building teams that thrive. Armed with a Master's in Communication and Organizational Leadership and an MBA, Tim helped grow multiple companies' revenue by reimagining how people work together. His secret? Understanding that leadership isn't about control or perks-it's about creating space for others to do their best work, together.
Through compelling stories, research-backed insights, and hard-won lessons from his own painful failures as a leader, Tim reveals why the case for in-person work goes far deeper than productivity metrics. This isn't another corporate mandate dressed up in business jargon. It's a passionate, human argument for why we were made to thrive in community.
In this book, you'll discover: • Why mentorship can't be scheduled-it only happens in the micro-moments between work • How company culture is grown by employees, not mandated by management • The psychological reason remote workers struggle to advance (hint: it's not about effort) • Why your remote team is now competing against the entire world, not just local talent • How in-person workplaces consistently achieve higher retention, engagement, and growth • The truth about what "proximity" really teaches that no video call can replicate
With Work/Place as your guide, you'll finally have the words and the wisdom to build a workplace where people genuinely want to show up-and where showing up makes everyone stronger.
If you're ready to lead with passion, inspire with purpose, and reclaim what makes work meaningful, this book is your blueprint.
