Sample Chapter 1: “Taking Your Power Back” From Steve Chandler and Duane Black’s The Hands-Off Manager
In everyone’s life at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the human spirit.
—Albert Schweitzer
Most management activity today is what was alluded to by the Peter Drucker quote at the beginning of this book. Managers make it difficult for their people. They unknowingly kill the human spirit by their old-school micromanaging and critical judgments.
But there is a new kind of manager emerging in companies today, a manager devoted to rekindling the human spirit by keeping their hands off their employees’ happiness, and ...
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