Product Description
Bay Jordan has proven himself as a manager and leader in Southern Africa, Canada, and the UK. He attributes his career successes to an ability to help people recognise what needs to be done and then allowing them to get on and do it as they see best. Early in his management career he was surprised when his manager fed back as a negative, the comment that "Your people are perceived as better than you!" Having personally recruited and retained his team, Bay considered this to be a great compliment. In fact, after learning that he shared his philosophy with Andrew Carnegie who wanted to put on his gravestone, "Here lies a man who knew how to put into his service more able men than he was himself," he still does, and regards it as one of the greatest he has received. Unfortunately, even today, his former manager's attitude prevails and is symptomatic of a prescriptive management style that inhibits performance and effective teamwork in most organisations. In his book he explains the problem and shares ideas about creating the co-operation that will make any organisation more effective.
<P> <BR>The third edition has been updated with three new chapters illustrating how forward-thinking leaders can recruit, retain and gain substantial bottom-line benefit from their people.
From the Author
When I first wrote this book it was simply intended to be a thought-provoking treatise to make the case that if organisational leaders persisted in referring to their people as their greatest asset then they needed to stop being hypocritical about it and actually account for them as such. When I wrote it, I was unaware that this was something that had been mooted by no less a luminary than Peter Drucker some 40 years ago. Thus, in blissful ignorance of earlier attempts to find the 'holy grail' of how to value people as assets, I decided that it was no good promoting the idea without promoting how to do it and set out to figure out just that. I am happy to report that I am confident I have succeeded and in this third edition I have illustrated what this would look like. I hope you will find the concept as exciting as I do and that you will help make it a reality that will truly transform the workplace - and eliminate the human economic waste of disengaged people simply going through the motions because work is simply their livelihood and not an integral part of their self-fulfilment.
