On Fire at Work: How Great Companies Ignite Passion in Their People Without Burning Them Out
by Eric Chester
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On Fire at Work flies in the face of other books on workplace culture by showing that employee engagement isn't the ultimate goal - it's merely the starting point. Renowned leadership expert Eric Chester has gone straight to the source - top-tier leaders of the world's best places to work to uncover their best-practice strategies for getting employees to work harder, perform better, and stay longer. On Fire at Work features examples and original stories from exclusive personal interviews show more with over 25 founders/CEOs/presidents of companies like Marriott, Siemens, BB&T Bank, Wegmans, 7-Eleven, Hormel, Canadian WestJet, Ben & Jerry's, and The Container Store, along with smaller companies like Firehouse Subs, the Nerdery, and Build-A-Bear. The guiding principle is that any organization in any industry - from Fortune 500 firms to mom-and-pop shops - can learn how to bring out the very best in their employees.The book's content-rich research and conversational case study-based narrative make it a timely, actionable go-to reference on employee performance and productivity for C-level execs, corporate and government managers, HR professionals, and small business owners.
On Fire at Work is a practical field guide that any organization can implement to build, not an engaged workforce, but a workforce that's on fire!
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Speaker Eric Chester is an expert on Generation Why, which is a term he created for people born after 1980. He has written Employing Generation Why: Understanding, Managing, and Motivating Your New Workforce and Getting Them to Give a Damn: How to Get Your Front Line to Care about Your Bottom Line. He has appeared on numerous national media show more outlets including Good Morning America, MSNBC, FOX News, CNN, ABC, and 20/20. He was inducted into the Council of Peers Award of Excellence International Speakers Hall of Fame in 2004. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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