Book of the Week
We: How to Increase Performance and Profits through Full Engagement
Author: Rudy Karsan and Kevin Kruse
Date: January 24, 2011
Pages: 236
“We live in a new era where work and life are blended as opposed to balanced, entitlements are a thing of the past, and job satisfaction is at a record low. This is a crisis for individuals because negative emotions at work spill over to our personal lives and cross over to those around us.” – Rudy Karsan
The book We: How to Increase Performance and Profits through Full Engagement provides relevant and actionable tips on how leaders can inspire immediate personal and organizational growth through interactive exercises, videos and anecdotes. Karsan and Kruse inform readers of the great impact engagement can have on a company’s financial performance that is validated from findings of over 10 million worker surveys, as well as their personal experiences as leaders of emerging companies.
Here are their fundamentals for driving employee engagement and your bottom line
- Growth: Employees need to feel that they are advancing in their careers or learning new things
- Recognition: Employees need to feel appreciated and believe that their ideas count
- Trust: Employees need to trust senior leaders and feel confident about the future
