Andrew Rondeau

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Tom Peters Recommends The Dream Manager

By Andrew Rondeau
Published 10/10/2007

Below is what Tom Peters says about Matthew Kelly's new book, The Dream Manager.

I interviewed Matthew just before the book was released. See the interview and my views on the book here:

The Dream Manager

Tom Peters:

"Okay, I’m gonna say it—I think Matthew Kelly's The Dream Manager is magnificent. Furthermore, I think that if you, Mr/Ms Manager-Executive, don’t "get it," you've got a big-time problem. (Well, that's harsh, unnecessarily so, but it does seem like patently obvious "stuff" ignored 89% of the time—and I'm being generous.)

Herewith, a couple of quotes from The Dream Manager, which may give you a flavor of the main argument: "An organization can only become the-best-version-of-itself to the extent that the people who drive that organization are striving to become better-versions-of-themselves." "A company's purpose is to become the-best-version-of-itself. The question is: What is an employee's purpose? Most would say, 'to help the company achieve its purpose'—but they would be wrong. That is certainly part of the employee's role, but an employee's primary purpose is to become the-best-version-of-himself or -herself. ... When a company forgets that it exists to serve customers, it quickly goes out of business. Our employees are our first customers, and our most important customers."

Order 'The Dream Manager' here: Amazon UK or Amazon USA