- Paperback: 319 pages
- Publisher: Adams Media Corporation (30 Sep 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1580621309
- ISBN-13: 978-1580621304
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 20.3 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,331,216 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Streetwise is devoted exclusively to business topics. From writing business plans, to financing, to building Web site traffic, these books provide everything ambitious business professionals need. Business happens in the real world, not the classroom. Streetwise recognises this and delivers the goods - fast. No fluff. No wasted time. Just cutting-edge information managers and small business entrepreneurs need to run their business successfully.
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There are new and better ways to turn on employees
I wrote this book to share some striking insights I learned from my studies about how to inspire your people. Most employees are on the 'resistance path,' characterized by negative attitudes, pessimism, and reluctance to volunteer, take risks, or go the extra mile. In this book I show how exceptional managers are able to shift their people onto the performance path and awaken their internal drive to grow and achieve through their work. I cover many new ideas in the areas of emotional motivation, interpersonal skills, leadership styles, and how to use informative and positive feedback and rewards. And I include lots of idea boxes and mini-cases to help readers benchmark great ideas from other innovators. If you are feeling frustrated with how your people or your organization perform, I highly recommend you have a look at these new strategies and solutions. And I urge you to do so before prescribing standard rewards and recognition programs, because they may or may not work, depending upon the foundations in place in your organization. I've also included some striking evidence from my own studies and from the database of Surcon International to help you tease out the links between how you treat your people and what your bottom-line numbers do. The techniques I cover in the book can drive roughly 40% of the variation in profits in most businesses, yet currently receive less than 1% of managers' time and attention. If you'd like to learn more about this book before purchasing or to "check out" my firm and my credentials, feel free to visit streetwisemotivation.com. Thanks for your interest! By the way, many people have asked me if this book is applicable to non-business contexts. Yes, it is. The basic techniques seem to work well in teaching, running non-profits, and coaching athletic teams, for example. People are people, wherever they may be, and they all need some help to get inspired and achieve their full potential.
I wrote this book to share some striking insights I learned from my studies about how to inspire your people. Most employees are on the 'resistance path,' characterized by negative attitudes, pessimism, and reluctance to volunteer, take risks, or go the extra mile. In this book I show how exceptional managers are able to shift their people onto the performance path and awaken their internal drive to grow and achieve through their work. I cover many new ideas in the areas of emotional motivation, interpersonal skills, leadership styles, and how to use informative and positive feedback and rewards. And I include lots of idea boxes and mini-cases to help readers benchmark great ideas from other innovators. If you are feeling frustrated with how your people or your organization perform, I highly recommend you have a look at these new strategies and solutions. And I urge you to do so before prescribing standard rewards and recognition programs, because they may or may not work, depending upon the foundations in place in your organization. I've also included some striking evidence from my own studies and from the database of Surcon International to help you tease out the links between how you treat your people and what your bottom-line numbers do. The techniques I cover in the book can drive roughly 40% of the variation in profits in most businesses, yet currently receive less than 1% of managers' time and attention. If you'd like to learn more about this book before purchasing or to "check out" my firm and my credentials, feel free to visit streetwisemotivation.com. Thanks for your interest! By the way, many people have asked me if this book is applicable to non-business contexts. Yes, it is. The basic techniques seem to work well in teaching, running non-profits, and coaching athletic teams, for example. People are people, wherever they may be, and they all need some help to get inspired and achieve their full potential.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the best motivation books ever written.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Streetwise Motivating and Rewarding Employees (Streetwise business books) (Paperback)
Streetwise Motivating and Rewarding Employees is one of the best books about motivating that I have ever read. It is full of so many great ideas for motivating employees. I highly recommend it!!!
5.0 out of 5 stars
A practical and inspiring collection of methods and ideas.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Streetwise Motivating and Rewarding Employees (Streetwise business books) (Paperback)
I recommend this book as a problem-solver if you have a difficult employee, or for boning up on how to be a more effective manager and supervisor in general. Lots of useful methods and guidelines, covering everything from how to give good feedback to how to design effective incentives and boost performance. Hiam goes much farther than other authors to articulate the core elements of employee attitude and motivation. A user-friendly framework for time-pressured managers to help their people become the best they can be. Just paste a Post-It note on this book saying: 'No smoke 'n' mirrors here...only solid content.!'
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4.8 out of 5 stars (4 customer reviews) 14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A practical and inspiring collection of methods and ideas.,
By Philip T. DiPeri - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Streetwise Motivating and Rewarding Employees (Streetwise business books) (Paperback)
I recommend this book as a problem-solver if you have a difficult employee, or for boning up on how to be a more effective manager and supervisor in general. Lots of useful methods and guidelines, covering everything from how to give good feedback to how to design effective incentives and boost performance. Hiam goes much farther than other authors to articulate the core elements of employee attitude and motivation. A user-friendly framework for time-pressured managers to help their people become the best they can be. Just paste a Post-It note on this book saying: 'No smoke 'n' mirrors here...only solid content.!'
12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the best motivation books ever written.,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Streetwise Motivating and Rewarding Employees (Streetwise business books) (Paperback)
Streetwise Motivating and Rewarding Employees is one of the best books about motivating that I have ever read. It is full of so many great ideas for motivating employees. I highly recommend it!!!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Motivation does in deed relate to productivity,
By Jeff Lippincott "JLIPPIN" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Streetwise Motivating and Rewarding Employees (Streetwise business books) (Paperback)
I recently picked this book up on the discount rack at one of my local bookstores. It only cost me $3 plus tax. I'm glad I bought it because it does a nice job explaining the important role an employee's motivation in doing his or her work can have on his or her productivity. Leaders and managers should not underestimate his or her employee's motivation level to perform and be productive while at work. Most of this book explains ways that leaders and managers can raise employee motivation levels.
I highly recommend leaders and managers give this book a quick read. Unfortunately, the book is kind of wordy and uses the first person way too much. What took 319 pages could easily have been done well in about 150. And I don't think the title is entirely accurate when it claims that the book will provide "New and Better Ways to Inspire Your People." There is nothing "new and better" included in this book. When a person is not motivated much to do something, then that something usually does not get done very quickly. And the slower something is done translates into lower productivity. Workers can be motivated to do their work by encouragement, praise, rewards, and other positive means, or they can be motivated by negative means, i.e. punished, threatened, yelled at, or intimidated. The author suggests that positive means are better than negative means, but he fails to acknowledge that it is not always practical. When positive means are used to inspire, then both employees and managers benefit. When negative means are employed to enforce compliance, then managers benefit more than employees. The author seems to make a judgment call in his book that positive means should be used exclusively. But the author does not mention that not all jobs are created equal and motivation of employees at jobs cannot always be increased by positive means. Some jobs are lousy by definition, and nobody can be motivated positively to do them. One such job that comes to mind is a crew job at a fast-food restaurant. I think the author should have avoided making a judgment call that positive means of increasing employee motivation is better than negative means. That topic was really beyond the scope of the book. Leaders with subordinates who are just putting in their time at work will learn a lot about how to motivate their subordinates to higher productivity levels by reading this book. Leaders with subordinates who are working hard, but not smart, will benefit from reading this book. But managers with subordinates who are working hard and smart probably will not. And it doesn't matter if this last group of subordinates is motivated by positive or negative means. However, it they are being motivated by negative means, then you may be able to figure out how to motivate them through positive means by reading this book. |
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