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(Great) Employees Only: How Gifted Bosses Hire and De-Hire Their Way to Success


Description: After searching for the best bosses in America, Dale Dauten discovered a little-known fact about some of the country’s great managers--they often have considerable turnover in their staffs. This was surprising. After all, if you’re a great boss, you hire terrific people and create a great work environment that no one wants to leave, right? But employees were leaving, some because they were being lured away to marvelous new jobs, but others because the gifted boss was escorting them out, usually with such grace they were glad to go (a process that the author calls de-hiring). But ultimately everyone was better off, those who stayed or left, and especially the boss who was able to trade-in the second-rate employee for a new star, and in doing so, creates a stronger team. (Great) Employees Only is a short and to the point collection of quick bursts of insights that will be easily readable and entertaining.

"A mediocre employee in your group is more than one mediocre employee—he or she is a human multiplier-effect, to the downside. If you have even one mediocre employee, you have announced to the world that mediocrity is okay by you, while conceding that you are willing to slow the entire group for the sake of the worst employee.

"Thus, allowing that one person to stay is not being kind or generous; its dangerous. Its dangerous for the individual, who knows that, at some level, he or she is doing second-rate work, and who you are locking into mediocrity, and it is dangerous for the group, which is slowed and distracted."
—from (Great) Employees Only

"Dauten will challenge every preconceived notion you have about making your career take off."
—Harvey Mackay, author of Swim with the Sharks without Being Eaten Alive

"Youll rediscover the joy thats missing in your career, your co-workers, and yourself."
—Ken Elkins, former president and CEO, Pulitzer Broadcasting Company

About the author

Dale Dauten writes two nationally syndicated weekly columns that appear in more than one hundred newspapers. He began his career as a consultant before heading his own marketing research firm, whose clients include McDonalds, Procter & Gamble, and 3M, among others. Most recently, as the founder of The Innovators Lab, he has worked with such companies as Georgia-Pacific, General Dynamics, Caterpillar, and NASA. He is also the author of The Gifted Boss.


Contents: Some of the topics covered include:


Always be hiring what talent scouts know

Talent courtship

Employees vs. allies

Firing takes "guts" but de-hiring takes "heart"

Creating a culture that does the hiring and de-hiring

Beyond Darwinian management -- minimizing the need to de-hire

What H.R. and the lawyers say



Summary: In searching for the best bosses in America, author Dale Dauten discovered something he never predicted--many gifted bosses have considerable turnover in their staffs. Tradition says that workers stay when they like their boss. However, the reality is that great bosses are constantly "de-hiring" (helping employees either rise to excellence or move to a job where they can). The end result is what Dauten calls "effortless leadership," resulting in happier, self-managing employees, a happier boss, and stronger, more effective teams. (Great) Employees Only presents Dautens research and shows readers the right way to hire and de-hire, creating a culture that the best employees yearn to be part of.




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