Please Don't Just Do What I Tell You! Do What Needs to Be Done
Every Employee's Guide to Making Work More Rewarding
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- ¥1,800
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- ¥1,800
Publisher Description
The author of the million-copy-selling 1001 Ways series shows how to get ahead by fulfilling every employers ultimate expectation. This book contains a clear message: Every boss wants an effective worker to do what most needs to be done without having to be asked. Simple? Perhaps. Easy? Not on your life. But thanks to Bob Nelson, employers and employees everywhere will be empowered by this vital message, and in the process achieve their goals and create a mutually rewarding experience.
As brief, to the point, and inspiring as his previous best-selling titles, Nelsons commonsense advice can be applied to any situation, from the mailroom to the boardroom, and is illustrated with a wide array of examples and anecdotes from real life. Helping readers tap into their own intelligence, resourcefulness, and pride, Nelson demonstrates how acts of initiative both big and small can make an enormous difference in the way an employee is viewed -- and rewarded -- by his or her boss; he also shows how the effects of those actions benefit the entire organization. It's a perfect first day on the job book; a useful resource for any HR department; and a worthwhile investment for anyone who wants to learn more and go farther in a job, in a career, and in life.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Nelson, author of the bestselling 1,001 Ways to Reward Employees, knows that the best ideas often come from employees on the lowest rung rather than from the people in the corner offices. One Starbucks employee, for instance, created and began serving Frappuccinos even though her manager forbade her to do so; later, Howard Shultz, Starbucks CEO, thanked this worker. When employees at a U.S. Airways maintenance facility heard they might lose their jobs, they proposed to management that work from other parts of the country be consolidated at their site. They kept their jobs, and the airline saved money. This book is filled with brief anecdotes of people who did more than their day-to-day duties. In a friendly, knowledgeable tone, Nelson explains how to take the initiative and make one's job better or one's customers happier. Each of these brief chapters has a title that itself is a lesson "Turn Needs into Opportunities," "Learn to Enjoy Those Things Others Hate to Do" and "Regroup When Your Ideas Meet Resistance." His basic point is one of empowerment: think bigger, he urges, figure out "what needs to be done" beyond the confines of your job description and do it. Although readers may wish Nelson had offered more detailed suggestions, his solid advice should be read by employees at all levels of an organization.
