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Shine: Using Brain Science to Get the Best from Your People [Hardcover]

Edward M. Hallowell
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Book Description

January 13, 2011

Your job as a manager is getting harder all the time. But your most critical responsibility—especially in today’s world of intensifying competition—is how to help your people shine their brightest.

How do you inspire solid contributors to strive for more? What should you do if a star player falls off their game?

In Shine, bestselling author, psychiatrist, and ADD expert Edward Hallowell draws on brain science, performance research, and his own experience helping people maximize their potential to present a proven process for getting the best from your people:

-Select—put the right people in the right job, and give them responsibilities that “light up” their brain.
-Connect—strengthen interpersonal bonds among team members.
-Play—help people unleash their imaginations at work.
-Grapple and Grow—when the pressure’s on, enable employees to achieve mastery of their work.
-Shine—use the right rewards to promote loyalty and stoke your people’s desire to excel.

Brimming with Hallowell’s trademark candor and warmth, Shine is a vital new resource for all managers seeking to inspire excellence in their teams.

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"This is a great book with some great ideas on how to manage groups that aren’t just Dilbert clones." - Portland Book Review

About the Author


Edward M. Hallowell M.D. is a psychiatrist, an instructor at Harvard Medical School, and director of the Hallowell Center for Cognitive and Emotional Health, which serves individuals with emotional and learning problems. He was on the faculty of Harvard Medical School for 20 years. He has written two popular Harvard Business Review articles and authored 13 books, including the national bestseller Driven to Distraction.


Product Details

  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press; 1 edition (January 13, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1591399238
  • ISBN-13: 978-1591399230
  • Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 1 x 9.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #197,249 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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I am a child and adult psychiatrist with private practices in Sudbury, Mass as well as on the upper west side in New York City. Both practices operate under the name The Hallowell Center, where we offer diagnosis and a range of treatments for ADHD and learning problems in children and adults. I also am a writer and a speaker. I am married to Sue Hallowell, a social worker and a therapist. We have been married for 24 years and have 3 children, Lucy, now 23, Jack, 20, and Tucker, 17 (as of April, 2013).
The major theme that runs through all my work is the magical power of the human connection, and the power of positive connections of all kinds. I also specialize in learning differences and have written books about how to deal best with attention deficit disorder, a condition that I regard as a potential gift, if it handled correctly. Having both ADHD and dyslexia myself, I am particularly qualified to help people with these conditions bring out their best
I welcome hearing from readers. Just send me an email to drhallowell@gmail.com or visit my website at drhallowell.com




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4.6 out of 5 stars
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17 of 20 people found the following review helpful
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I received this book, Shine, as a new years gift from a friend who, like myself, also happens to be a business executive. With it he included a brief explanation of the wealth of innovative, powerful and easy to use principles it contains.
I couldn't agree more.
In an entertaining and user-friendly format Hallowell teaches how to develop a more enjoyable and productive work environment for both yourself and those you manage.
I immediately began implementing a small portion of what I learned from this book about making positive connections and improving my communication style. I am pleasantly surprised to have found, in just a few weeks, how my connections with several of my direct reports are beginning to strengthen in a way that feels natural and comfortable to me. I NEVER would have thought to do this prior to reading Shine. There are other equally superb lessons in this book about how to empower others to work smarter and more efficiently; and providing simple to execute opportunities for employees to enjoy more positive experiences at work.
In summary, I give this book 5 stars not only because the ideas and lessons within it actually work, but also because it is an enjoyable read.
This book should be equally useful to executives, middle managers and everyone else who wants to help others or themselves "SHINE" more brightly in the workplace and in life.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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I agree with Edward Hallowell: "Put simply, the best managers bring out the best from their people. This is true of football coaches, orchestra conductors, big-company executives, and small-business owners. They are like alchemists who turn lead into gold. Put more accurately, they find and mine the gold that resides in everyone."

Of course, that is also a worthy objective for managers: to find and mine the "gold" within themselves as well as within others...and then refine it. There is an additional dimension of engagement that should also be mentioned, suggested by the fact that parents raise future wives and mothers as well as daughters and future husbands and fathers as well as sons: In a role in which they do resemble alchemists, the best managers help those entrusted to their care to become effective managers.

Hallowell suggests a five-step process "to ignite peak performance." He devotes a separate chapter to each step: (1) Select high potentials and align their strengths with the work for which they are best suited, (2) establish and then continue to strengthen connections with those who are managed as well as between and among them, and meanwhile (3) ensure that the work environment is one that stimulates and nourishes "imaginative engagement" (i.e. play); (4) create conditions in which people are encouraged to "grapple and grow" by taking prudent risks that are exciting learning opportunities, and (5) do anything and everything possible to help people "shine" with pride in what they have achieved, joy in having done it with pleasure, and confidence that that this "Cycle of Excellence" will be self-perpetuating.

With rigor and eloquence, Hallowell carefully reviews and discusses the latest research on brain science to get the best from one's self and others; however, he focuses most of his attention on explaining HOW to do that. For example, he suggests 11 "simple, concrete steps...to get the sand out of the gears of the Cycle of Excellence and to promote the feeling of connectedness that lubricates the gears so well" (Pages 105-107), then he offers ten practical suggestions to encourage "the deep and exciting state I call by the deceptively simple term `play." (Pages 127-132); next, on Pages 152-156, Hallowell identifies ten steps to take to help employees "grapple with the demands of the job and achieve consistent progress"; and my final example, on Pages 172-173, ten steps for promoting shine among associates.

Checklists such as these will help facilitate, indeed expedite frequent review of important material later, as will the "Key Ideas" section that Hallowell provides at the conclusion of each chapter. I commend him on this brilliant book, a shining achievement that will, I am certain, help his readers to produce countless others.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars How to make your employees Shine! January 31, 2011
Format:Hardcover
We all have talent in us and the will to improve. It's a matter of how you explore the factors that unleash our fullest potential and this is something that can be taught, and done, through a 5-step process leading to what the author calls "The Cycle of Excellence". Ned Hallowell takes us through the five steps, Select, Connect, Play, Grapple and Grow, and Shine to show how small, individual activities can make a significant change in people's lives, and improve performance.

This is a book full of "aha moments" and the reader is taken through real-world examples and punctual ideas that can be applied instantly, to make sure employees and teams are doing what they love, feel connected to others, use their creativeness to explore new things, have new challenges everyday, and are being recognized constantly for improvements, milestones and a job well done.

A very recommended book I would locate right next to Liz Wiseman's excellent read Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter as an additional resource for managing talent and getting the best out of everyone.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Simplistic
Whatever "science" this is based on is invisible and the book is lightweight aimed at motivating with paragraph after paragraph that add nothing except pages to fufill the editor's... Read more
Published 24 days ago by Kenneth W. Massey
5.0 out of 5 stars Some very useful and profitable ideas
I've loved this book. Not one that blow your mind with ideas that have never been discussed but it does a great job of helping any manager look at their work a bit differently. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Robert Kirk
5.0 out of 5 stars A Masterpiece for Managing People!
It's not my first reading for Dr. Hallowell. His writing style is amusing and he makes a wonderful job in creating the context for his advices through real-life anecdotes. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Tarek Hassan
5.0 out of 5 stars Shine
Psychiatrist Edward M. Hallowell starts by offering new information about human cognition and moves into explaining how to manage people better based on systematically applying... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Rolf Dobelli
4.0 out of 5 stars GOOD READ
Overall, this book talks about several important things not only be used to bring shine in others, but it is also helpful for oneself. Overall this is a good read
Published 24 months ago by SC
5.0 out of 5 stars Shine: Using Brain Science to Get the Best from Your People
By Edward M. Hallowell (Harvard Business Review Press, 2011)

Whether you are a business executive, manager, entrepreneur, or student, this business book has treasures of... Read more
Published on April 27, 2011 by Kennedy
4.0 out of 5 stars How to keep onself and others "shining"
Shine has one of the best introductions I have read in a long while. Hallowell's story of meeting "Dr. Shine" at the airport was inspiring. Read more
Published on April 10, 2011 by Robert Selden
5.0 out of 5 stars A "Must Have" for Anyone's Success Library!
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Published on March 15, 2011 by Dave Sheffield
5.0 out of 5 stars Tremendously Helpful
If you're a manager or leader eager to build a team of happy, productive and committed people, you should pick up a copy of SHINE today. Read more
Published on February 20, 2011 by Danilo Vargas
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