Summary of Patrick M. Lencioni's The Truth About Employee Engagement

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 When Brian began his career as a manager, he was instantly fascinated by everything about it. He loved planning and budgeting, counseling and performance appraisals, and he felt like he had been created to manage.
#2 When a headhunter friend of Kathryn's called and asked if she would be interested in interviewing for the CEO position at a small exercise equipment manufacturer in the central valley, she insisted that her friend recommend Brian as a candidate for the job.
#3 JMJ was a small company that had survived by tapping into the cheap labor in the area. It had never really grown much beyond that, and its founder and original CEO decided he had enough. Brian was hired to turn things around.
#4 JMJ was a solid company, with no debt, and plenty of cash in the bank. However, two paragraphs in the Wall Street Journal announced that Nike was thinking about entering the market for exercise equipment. That was the precursor to an earthquake that would ultimately lead to the company being acquired by a brand name conglomerate.

Sujets

• Love
• Love (disambiguation)
• Général
• Careers
• Carrière
• Carrière & Mobilité

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 09 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669352785
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Patrick M. Lencioni's The Truth About Employee Engagement
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

When Brian began his career as a manager, he was instantly fascinated by everything about it. He loved planning and budgeting, counseling and performance appraisals, and he felt like he had been created to manage.

#2

When a headhunter friend of Kathryn's called and asked if she would be interested in interviewing for the CEO position at a small exercise equipment manufacturer in the central valley, she insisted that her friend recommend Brian as a candidate for the job.

#3

JMJ was a small company that had survived by tapping into the cheap labor in the area. It had never really grown much beyond that, and its founder and original CEO decided he had enough. Brian was hired to turn things around.

#4

JMJ was a solid company, with no debt, and plenty of cash in the bank. However, two paragraphs in the Wall Street Journal announced that Nike was thinking about entering the market for exercise equipment. That was the precursor to an earthquake that would ultimately lead to the company being acquired by a brand name conglomerate.

#5

After reading the Wall Street Journal article, Brian and his board numbly came to the conclusion that they would have to sell JMJ. They called one of their friends at an investment bank in San Francisco and asked him to help find a buyer for the company.

#6

When looking at a company, Rick wants to know how fast its market is growing, how much of that market it owns, and whether it’s in a position to increase its share. He isn’t big on the soft stuff. If it matters, it should be reflected in the bottom line numbers.

#7

The first mover advantage is a card that can be played on both sides of the table to get a better deal. It is best played by exploiting the other party’s haste, which makes them more generous than they intended to be.

#8

The company that acquired MJJ was not new to the acquisition game, and its executive team had adopted an extremely aggressive strategy when it came to integration. Their rationale was that it was better to accelerate a transition by moving quickly, even if that caused disruption.

#9

After twenty-eight years of working, the Baileys suddenly had more money than they ever felt they needed. With no more tuition or braces to pay for, they could live a fairly comfortable lifestyle without Brian having to work again.

#10

Brian and Leslie began looking for a retirement home. They decided they wanted to live in the Lake Tahoe area, where they could ski in the winter and boat and golf in the summer.

#11

After the Napa talk, the couple began looking at houses, and eventually settled on a modest but modern log home at the southern end of Lake Tahoe, a few miles into Nevada. They moved in two weeks later.

#12

Brian was skiing down a mountain, and he decided to have some fun by taking a deceptively icy slalom run. As he approached the last flag, his right ski slid out from under him, setting off a chain reaction of imbalance followed by attempted recovery. His knee was on fire.

#13

When Brian returned to work, he found that he was having a hard time keeping himself occupied.