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Corporate MVPs: Managing Your Company's Most Valuable Performers (JB Foreign Imprint Series - Canada.)
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This breakthrough book offers help for managers charged with keeping a company's MVPs happy, healthy and hired. - Charles Decker -- Fast Company Magazine, February 2004: Reader's Choice
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Praise for Corporate MVPs
"Facing pressure to achieve demanding performance targets with limited resources, today’s CEOs are under the gun. With its compelling stories and proven practices, Corporate MVPs shows managers how to meet these challenges by attracting and motivating top performing people."
—Peter S. Cohan, President, Peter S. Cohan & Associates, and Author of Value Leadership
"This book provides a structured approach to identifying, developing, and retaining the small number of employees the organization literally needs in order to be successful. The material is original, insightful, and practical."
—Courtney Pratt, President and CEO, Stelco Inc.
"The selection and reward of human capital is the single most important responsibility of senior leadership. Corporate MVPs brings a valuable new point of view to identifying, motivating and developing top talent."
—Doron D. Grosman, Chief Financial Officer and VP Strategy, The Trane Company at American Standard
"This book is very insightful and practical. I would recommend it to entrepreneurs, CEOs, and anyone charged with HR responsibilities."
—Robert J. Chalfin C.P.A., Esq., Lecturer in Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
06/09/2004
This book offers great insight into these valuable assets--- our MVPs. The practical advise on how to manage MVPs is a extremely important for the HR community in supporting the organizations they work with. The authors research an area of leadership that is critical in these challenging times.
25/08/2004
There are just so many business books, and most of them are one-dimensional--taking a single theory and stretching it into a cure-all. Butterris and Roiter offer something different and refreshing here...a framework for how to think about the people around you, and how to build strong individuals and teams. The specific stories are great... I highly recommend this for one's senior staff.
24/08/2004
A business friend told me of this book and suggested it to me when one of my most important employees was thinking of leaving.
I run a decent sized company (1200 people) and I know that a precious few employees make up the heart of my business. If these 3 or 4 people left I would be up the creek. We have a good program to manage our talented people but have not felt that we really had a handle on how to manage these "MVP"s. Corporate MVPs really helped me to think about these people and what makes them tick. I now appreciate them more than ever, and now I am pretty comfortable that I know how to manage them. I am less on edge about my MVPs leaving.
Corporate MVPs is a good companion to one of my favorite business books "Good to Great". Good to Great looks at how organizations can move from good to great. Corporate MVPs looks at how individuals can move from good to MVP status.
I found the Chapter on "Managing the MVP" to be especially helpful. I have followed its advice and I have seen great results with my 5 MVPs. I also really liked the anecdotes and ideas from many successful business people that are scattered throughout the book. It adds a real life business feel to the research.
I have given the book to a number of my promising people so they could read "How to Become an MVP". It has created some very interesting discussions in my staff meetings on how we can all find ways to improve.
I have also found the chapters on recruiting MVPs and on managing difficult MVPs to be timely and extremely useful.
I have bought copies for my HR Director and for all my direct reports. Once read it becomes a good reference book as the needs arise.
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