Play Nice

Play Nice by Jason Schreier offers a riveting investigative look at how the impulse to keep the peace can conceal abusive power dynamics in modern workplaces. Drawing on deep reporting and vivid on the ground interviews, Schreier reveals the incentives, compromises, and silences that allow toxic behavior to persist while stifling creativity and accountability. Full of compelling profiles of whistleblowers and rank and file workers who push back, the book combines empathy with unsparing analysis to illuminate what it takes to change organizational culture. Timely and engrossing, Play Nice will make readers rethink assumptions about professionalism, leadership, and the cost of playing it safe.