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Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team's Passion, Creativity, and Productivity (Hardcover)
by Michael L. Stallard
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Passion for work, Motive of work, Productivity improvement, Leadership |
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An excellent leadership book that empowers you to build a connection culture and avoid employee burnout. Should be read by anyone who is in a position of influence or has any decision-making power. |
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Author: Michael L. Stallard
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Pub. in: March, 2007
ISBN: 0785223584
Pages: 224
Measurements: 8.3 x 5.4 x 1.2 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA14016
Other information: ISBN-13: 978-0785223580
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We highly recommend leadership book to all the senior leaders at fast-growing China-based companies. |
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Fired Up is an excellent baedeker of human motivations, needs and connections in organizational settings. Its strength is the substantiation and organization of what to most will feel obvious, which the authors present simply, clearly, compellingly, succinctly. While reading, you recall learning each of these lessons at some point in your life - no shocking revelations, except how often so few of these seemingly self-evident truths are followed in modern organizations, and what a key role they play in excellence, success, innovation, longevity, etc.
Having been involved in some of the best and brightest educational, media, financial, technology organizations, I've learned first hand how many suffer from lack of adequately appreciating and employing the techniques and values Stallard, Dewing-Hommes, and Pankau detail here. While organizations focus on every quantitative, financial, and technological Rube Goldberg strategy they can buy, they neglect the most essential resource in their organization, without the full engagement of which all the others are dubious. In their own, quiet way the authors seek to save the soul of the organization (its employees, clients, stakeholders - of society) from mechanistic, impersonal tendencies which have shackled the spirit. They provide means of freeing, engaging, inspiring people, humanity, awareness, connection to team, organization, customers, society, world, and more.
Fired Up is quick yet essential reading for anyone building, rebuilding, revitalizing, honing, leading their team/organization, and a valuable addition to any organizational management/leadership/HR reading list, syllabus or library. It could be one of the most valuable Secret Santa stocking stuffers you'll ever give/receive.
My own company and those of clients are already seeing benefits from employing techniques learned from this book, and planning to implement others.
(From Adam Rosenberg, USA)
Target readers:
CEOs, other senior executives, managers, nonprofit government leaders, entrepreneurs, management consultants, academics and MBAs.
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Michael Lee Stallard is founder and president of E Pluribus Partners, a think tank and consulting firm helping organizations increase employee and customer engagement. As former chief marketing officer for businesses at Morgan Stanley and Charles Schwab, he was a thought leader on the topic of engaging people on the front lines of business.
Carolyn Dewing-Hommes, co-founder and partner at E Pluribus Partners, spent 15 years at Citibank where she worked on a global task force identifying companies worldwide whose practices successfully engaged their employees.
Jason Pankau, co-founder and partner at E Pluribus Partners, is president of Life Spring Network, an organization helping people realize life's potential. He serves as a consultant and life coach to many corporate executives and pastors.
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From Publisher
Indisputable evidence has revealed the greatest threat to America's economy. Is it off-shoring labor? Unethical corporate practices? A turbulent market that forces downsizing? No. A Gallup Organization survey of more than one million Americans show that nearly 75 percent of all workers are disengaged.
Employee disengagement is a widespread malady in American organizations, causing the loss of billions of dollars, hours of dissatisfaction, and work lives lacking true value. In his book, Fired Up or Burned Out, Michael Stallard shares the three key actions necessary to transform even a lethargic, disconnected organization or office into an impassioned, innovative, and thriving workplace.
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Hey, as a manager, the absence of turnover and the retention of valuable employees is right up there on the top of my list. And so it should be for every manager in corporate America today. Turnover goes right to your bottom line in the form of loss of knowledge and expense to rehire and retrain.
When it comes to managing people, two things are key:
1. A good manager is fundamentally a good person. He/she learned early on (probably in the schoolyard) that respect for and inclusion of others is a keystone in being a team leader, or even a team participant.
2. Most of us learn to be good managers by working for people we valued and followed willingly, and working for people we hated to work for. We sift through and take the best from one, and learn to avoid what we hated from the other.
But all managers, no matter how tenured, or how they learned their "trade", need to periodically refresh and rethink the way they manage people. Luckily, from "In Search of Excellence" onward, I've found a number of business books that assist me in the quest to be a better manager.
I liked the idea of "Fired Up or Burned Out", because frankly, I was feeling a little bit of the latter. And in this book, Stallard and his partners have put together a concise and fundamental review of how an employee connects, and how he/she needs to connect to the organization and the team. Strategies to keep that connection alive are plentiful in the book, and Stallard uses both research, and personal anecdotes to illustrate the themes. It's a good mix. You should, as a manager, be able to read this book in a couple of sittings, and walk away with ideas that will work for you in re-energizing staff, or in making an "unintentional disconnector" want to follow a path that leads them into "intentional connection".
That said, my favorite part of this book, and I will use the stories with my staff, is Part IV, where Stallard illustrates 20 different leaders (enough for one month of business, on workdays!) from all walks of life, and how they created a connection culture in their world to take their team forward. You will gain a sense of momentum, and fire yourself up with these stories, even if you use no other part of Stallard's work.
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Russell Reynolds, Jr., Founder and Former CEO, Russell Reynolds Associates, USA
<2008-05-14 00:00>
An enthralling and impressive work. It shows how to empower people and create great societies, corporations and cultures. I'm giving it to everyone at my own firm.
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Frances Hesselbein, Chairman and Founding President, The Peter Drucker Foundation, USA
<2008-05-14 00:00>
In our turbulent times, leaders who are searching for ways to develop the healthy work environment that releases the energy of their people, releases the human spirit, could not find a more inspiring support than this great new resource for leaders in the corporate, government and social sectors. Fired Up or Burned Out will be the indispensable leadership guide for leaders everywhere." |
Regina Fazio Maruca, former Senior Editor, Harvard Business Review, Coauthor Your Leadership Legacy, USA
<2008-05-14 00:00>
Reading this book is like having a great conversation; new and interesting people join in along the way, adding their own personal and varied insights, and encouraging an increasingly smart and useful dialogue. Readers are compelled to emerge smarter, more thoughtful, and more energized and engaging with this book. |
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