There is a crisis in business today: the invisible employee. Felling threatened, ignored, and unappreciated, invisible employees fight back the only way they know how – by staying hidden in the corporate shadows, doing just enough to get by, grumbling about this and that, and passing these techniques along to new workers.

This book, a business fable, is packed with hard-won wisdom and follows a group of people who live and work together on a mysterious island. In this second edition – updated with new case studies and current survey results – managers learn how to combat one of the most common negative attitudes in business: that smart employees keep their heads down and never do more than is asked.