Synopses & Reviews
Your job as a manager is getting harder all the time. But your most critical responsibilityespecially in todays world of intensifying competitionis 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:
-Selectput the right people in the right job, and give them responsibilities that light up” their brain.
-Connectstrengthen interpersonal bonds among team members.
-Playhelp people unleash their imaginations at work.
-Grapple and Growwhen the pressures on, enable employees to achieve mastery of their work.
-Shineuse the right rewards to promote loyalty and stoke your peoples desire to excel.
Brimming with Hallowells trademark candor and warmth, Shine is a vital new resource for all managers seeking to inspire excellence in their teams.
Review
"This is a great book with some great ideas on how to manage groups that arent just Dilbert clones." - Portland Book Review
Synopsis
Creating that spark and inspiring someone to perform at their highest levels isn't rocket science; but it is brain science. Drawing from his expertise helping people reach their full potential and synthesizing the latest research, Hallowell offers managers a five-step process that leads to peak performance.
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.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
PART I: Getting Your Game
Chapter 1: Live Life For All Its Worth
Chapter 2: Dr. Shine
Chapter 3: Initiating the Cycle of Excellence
Chapter 4: Step 1: Select
Chapter 5: Step 2: Connect
Chapter 6: Step 3: Imagine and Play
Chapter 7: Step 4: Work and Practice
Chapter 8: Step 5: Mastery
Chapter 9: Step 6: Recognition
Chapter 10: Sand in the Gears of the Cycle
PART II: Maintaining Your Love of Your Game
Chapter 11: An Amazing State of Mind
Chapter 12: The Myth of Hard Work
Chapter 13: When Following Your Dream is Folly
Chapter 14: Whats Totally New About Modern Life. . .
And How It Can Sabotage Peak Performance
Chapter 15: 10 Action Steps to Promote Peak Performance
PART III: Four Examples
Chapter 16: Clay Mathile: Iams Pet Foods
Chapter 17: Joseph Loscalzo: Physician-in-Chief, Brigham and Womens Hospital
Chapter 18: Marshall Herskovitz, Writer/Director/Producer
Chapter 19: Leon and Grace de Magistris: Leon and Company
PART IV: Chapter 20: Mooring