The Dream Manager | Matthew Kelly | Good business ideas presented clearly

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The Dream Manager

	The Dream Manager Matthew Kelly Hyperion, 2007 - 176 pages average customer review:based on 36 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Good business ideas presented clearly

Matthew Kelly writes like he speaks - with power, clarity, and focus. I should know because I've shared the platform with him, and I've read every one of his books. In this latest book he tells the story of Simon Roberts, general manager of Admiralty Janitorial Services. Recruited to run the company by Greg, the entrepreneurial founder, Simon finds he spends more time recruiting than anything else. With 400% annual turnover, a little over average for the industry, the company is a revolving door. And turnover costs-big time. Simon convinces Greg to go back to the basics and ask employees what they want and need, even though the executive team believes they have answer: more money. And it turns out they are wrong.

By really listening to employees and finding innovative solutions that appear to cost, but really pay back-and pay back big time, Simon finds the real key to employee satisfaction, full engagement, and reduced turnover, as well as profitability. For example, running employee shuttles to help people get to their jobs because many don't have cars, and the buses don't operate on the schedules when they clean buildings.

Ultimately, this is where the Dream Manager comes in-someone who asks people what their dreams are and then helps them to create plans to reach them. Simon and Greg, together with the executive team and the Dream Manager, show the employees that the company is committed to helping them achieve their dreams-and the employees respond with increased performance, lower turnover, fewer sick days, and greater productivity.

Kelly helps the reader realize the importance of motive in making the concept of a Dream Manager work. Though the story is fiction, the facts quoted are alive and well in every industry. Hearing of the employees' dreams that come true because of the company's commitment, will bring tears to your eyes. Executives and managers reading this book will long to make the same things happen for their own employees-and they can. The final section of the book lays out a step-by-step plan for individuals, managers, or organizations to implement their own Dream Manager process.

Armchair Interviews says: Everyone will want to work for a company with a Dream Manager program.

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AMAZING

Matthew Kelly is utterly amazing and so very gifted. I have read two of his previous books and have several tapes of his workshops. It amazes me how he builds on everything he has previously taught about it in The Rythm of Life and Perfectly Yourself.

This is a self-help book for the workplace. As a Catholic professional, this is the BEST book I have ever read to apply for work. Matthew is amazing. Its a quick and wonderful read. I highly recommend it!!

Worth reading

Written in a different style than Matthew's other books which are inspirational but very practical.The Dream Manager is well worth reading.

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Excellent Read

This is a wonderful book that can easily be finished in one day, and it's ideas can be used to improve relationships of all kinds in all settings. Definitely worth buying.

There are no quick fixes when it comes to people

. A business fable along the lines of Lencioni's. Continuing along my present theme of suggestions for our present and looming huge HR problem in tech, this book is refreshing and insightful while being "short" and easy to read. Taken as part of a pair with the recent book I reviewed by Cam Marston this gives you further tools and insights into your company and workforce. Without giving away the store, the narrator is COO of a boring services company that is having very (400%) turnover rates. The employees , managers, owner and clients arr all unhappy. Costs are rising and profits are down. These are ordinary people with tough problems. The solution and turnaround are an inspirational read. The author has been practicing this method for many years and has the proof to show that it works. I like the fable genre, it teaches while it entertains, ths lowering our learned barriers to knowledge. Great quote from Mark Twain," Those who do not read great books are under no disadvantage over those who can not read."Another from Kelly, " There are no quick fixes to situations that involve real, living, breathing people."

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