Ignited June 23, 2008 Managers! Light Up Your Company and Career (Financial Times Press, $25.99)
For businesspeople positioned in the middle of an organization, Ignited, by Vince Thompson, outlines practical tips for achieving your goals. Thompson has worked as a middle manager for 15 years, and currently devises on-line marketing solutions for companies including Napster, StarStyle.com and Break.com. Drawing on his wealth of experience, he shows how a middle manager can overcome the constraints, pressures and obstacles that come with the territory.
Thompson examines how to contend with various impediments—including HR policies that anger employees, burdensome reporting requirements, corporate mergers of little value and battles between company fiefdoms, which are more concerned with protecting themselves than furthering the company’s goals. He discusses not only how these adverse circumstances plague those in leadership positions, but also how they foster cynicism and disillusionment among their direct reports. In the end, the author stresses the need for improving morale so that you can maximize the productivity of employees whose performance managers are ultimately held accountable for.
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