Widgets: The 12 New Rules for Managing Your Employees as if They're Real People
- 4h 47m
- Rodd Wagner
- McGraw-Hill
- 2015
"Your people are not your greatest asset. They're not yours, and they're not assets."
With this declaration, one of the leading authorities on employee performance rolls up his sleeves against the weasel words, contradictions, bad habits, and intrusions that reduce people to "human resources." To "FTEs." To "human capital." To flesh-and-blood widgets.
Armed with empirical evidence from the provocative studies he leads around the globe, Wagner guides you through the new realities of what it takes to get the highest levels of intensity from people in a more mercenary, skeptical, and wired work world. He explains how elements such as individualization, fearlessness, transparency, recognition, and coolness are reciprocated with loyalty, productivity, innovation, and - inescapably - corporate reputation.
About the Author
Rodd Wagner is the New York Times bestselling author of the book Widgets: The 12 New Rules for Managing Your Employees As If They're Real People, to be released in March 2015. He is one of the foremost authorities on employee engagement and collaboration. Wagner's books, speeches, and thought leadership focus on how human nature affects business strategy. He currently serves as vice president of employee engagement strategy at BI Worldwide.
Wagner is a confidential advisor to senior executives on the best ways to increase their personal effectiveness and their organizations' performance. His work has taken him around the world, to the executive suites of major corporations in nearly every industry, to the Pentagon, and to the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz.
Wagner is lead author of the books 12: The Elements of Great Managing and Power of 2: How to Make the Most of Your Partnerships at Work and in Life. His books have been published in 10 languages and his work featured in The Wall Street Journal, ABC News Now, BusinessWeek.com, CNBC.com, and the National Post of Canada, and parodied in Dilbert.
Wagner holds an M.B.A. with honors from the University of Utah Graduate School of Business. He was formerly a principal of Gallup, the research director of the Portland Press Herald and WGME-TV in Maine, a reporter and news editor for The Salt Lake Tribune, and a radio talk show host. When not writing or consulting, he enjoys fly-fishing, snowboarding, and coaching youth lacrosse.
In this Book
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Widgets—The 12 New Rules for Managing Your Employees as if They’re Real People
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Where Are You on the New Rules Index?
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Introduction—“Human Resources”
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The Foundation—The Reciprocal Employee
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The First Rule—Get Inside Their Heads
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The Second Rule—Make Them Fearless
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The Third Rule—Make Money a Non-Issue
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The Fourth Rule—Help Them Thrive
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The Fifth Rule—Be Cool
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The Sixth Rule—Be Boldly Transparent
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The Seventh Rule—Don’t Kill the Meaning
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The Eighth Rule—See Their Future
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The Ninth Rule—Magnify Their Success
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The Tenth Rule—Unite Them
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The Eleventh Rule—Let Them Lead
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The Twelfth Rule—Take It to Extremes
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“Is ‘Paradise’ Too over the Top?”—Handling the Truth
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The Future of So-Called Engagement—The Profitable Pursuit of Happiness
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Appendix—The Science Behind the New Rules—Engineering a Better Vehicle
