1,001 Ways to Inspire: Your Organization, Your Team and Yourself [Paperback]

David E. Rye (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 1999

Motivation is the single most important management strategy a business person needs to ensure his or her professional, personal, and organizational success. "1,000 Ways to Inspire Your Organization, Your Team, and Yourself" shows how to re-apply motivation in every area National media publicity & promos .

Editorial Reviews

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Narrated by Alexander Marshall, Ryes (Starting Up, Prentice-Hall, 1997) book joins a long list of also-rans attempting to reinterpret the classic material on personality types by Peter Myers and Isabel Briggs Myers. Rye simplifies the types and renames them the power player, team player, party player, and diplomatic player. The diagnostic test (unseen) to help determine ones own personality type also repeats numerous other attempts to apply this research. In this case, the emphasis is on professional and organizational situations, also already done. Understanding yourself, your boss, co-workers, and employees by superimposing the famous Myers-Briggs Inventory of Personality Types (MBTI), while useful, has already been successfully applied by numerous other writers, such as Otto Kroeger and Janet M. Thuesen (Type Talk at Work, Dell, 1989), and David Keirsey (Please Understand Me, 1978). Ryes insights to improvement and motivation would be useful in public libraries not already holding any of the many predecessors in this saturated genre.Dale Farris, Groves, TX
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

DAVID E. RYE, M.B.A., the author of Starting Up and Winning the Entrepreneurial Game, founded Computech, a business that grew from startup to more than $40 million in three years. He lives in Scottsdale, Arizona. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Career Press (April 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564143481
• ISBN-13: 978-1564143488
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,495,547 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Psycho-Babble, February 28, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: 1,001 Ways to Inspire: Your Organization, Your Team and Yourself (Paperback)

I was very disappointed with this book. The author implies that his theories are based on Meyers-Briggs but the Meyers-Briggs type inventory is based on 16 personality types. What psychological principals Mr. Rye based his book on is a mystery.

I found "The Situation" examples more a work of fiction than of real life business problems. His motivational examples were repetitive and lacked insight into human behavior.

All in all, reading this book was irritating rather than helpful.

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Solid attempt - Difficult to apply, January 24, 2000

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Carl Helbich (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 1,001 Ways to Inspire: Your Organization, Your Team and Yourself (Paperback)

Although I'm only halfway into this book, I'm compelled to review it as I may not make it to the end. The book appears to be based on the Meyers-Briggs Personality Inventories. I've read and reviewed this well-known information several times in the past and have found it extremely useful, especially with respect to self-assessment. Mr. Rye's attempt to take the more complex Meyers-Briggs information and cyphon it into 4 distinct workplace personalities is an admirable and meaningful goal. The problem is, that while it serves as an excellent tool for the the reader (me) to understand his own personality type in the workplace, it has done little to help me identify the different personalities types of my subordinates. Just as the reader learns that he has a prodiminant personality trait with lesser traits of other types, so do his subordinates. It became increasingly difficult for me to identify the prodiminant personality types of the my subordinates. Mr. Rye's logical method of describing real and challenging work situations, and then precribing the correct remedies/approaches for the appropriate personality type of individual, just didn't work for me. The advise was good, except that I couldn't peg the majority of my employees into their prodiminant personality traits and thus apply the correct solution. The case-study situations themselves seemed to be a likely occurrence with only one or two of the possible personality types and therefore applying it to all four did not fit with my own experiences as a manager. However, if it does serve to help me better understand and resolve even a couple of employee situations (which it has already done), then it will have been worth the read. Each day of life teaches us to be better leaders, and this book will (to some degree) help me to recognize the lesson.

30 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A cornucopia of creative ideas for motivating people., March 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: 1,001 Ways to Inspire: Your Organization, Your Team and Yourself (Paperback)

Beginning with a self-administered test and a discussion about understanding yourself in terms of four personality types, this book presents ways to motivate yourself and others, including your boss and folks outside of the company, under a variety of circumstances. The author addresses personality and situational challenges. Here is a book that provides you with very applied guidance and an abundance of ideas; the type of book that should stimulate your thinking and motivate you to action.