The Gifted Boss : How to Find, Create and Keep Great Employees

by Dale Dauten, Cathryn S. Aison (Designed by)

“Whether you’re a manager trying to hire or hold on to your best talent, or an employee who always hoped to have work be more than just another job, this little book can bring you closer to your dream.”
—Bob Nelson, author of 1001 Ways to Reward Employees and 1001 Ways to Energize Employees Revised and updated, here is the groundbreaking “bible” on how to manage successful employees from Dale Dauten, one of America’s most innovative business consultants. A classic business “how-to” book, The Gifted Boss is an important business tool to help you find, create, and keep great employees—an indispensible guide to increasing workplace synergy and, ultimately, productivity from the internationally renowned management guru and founder of The Innovators’ Lab.

Genres: Business, Management

113 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1999

Reviews

[Kasey Dietrich · Rating 3 out of 5]

I’m skeptical about this one, it seems to provide pretty basic information that’s I’ve observed before in good workplaces. It doesn’t really get me inspired, and like a lot of business-y self help books the author makes me question what’s real and what isn’t. What I mean by that is there’s a fake it ‘til you make it sort of mentality in a lot real estate or networking workplaces, and I get that fake it til you make it vibe from this book. I find it hard to believe that this author has one friend who has all the answers to everything business related, usually in life one has many friends who each have bits and pieces of good insight or wisdom but not all the answers. Also this mentor seems to know every CEO on the face of the earth personally and knows their personal stories about each of them improving their business model. It seems too good to be true…. Not sure what to think about it.

[Cynthia · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was simple, short, clear, and most importantly, interesting. Dauten was on the quest of better leadership. This book was the documentation of how he learn from a master. Everybody can lead, and everybody can end up in a leadership position. This book helps you to become a gifted boss, where you can attract the best employee, instead of being an average workplace, offering compatible salary - aka average.

[Kiki · Rating 5 out of 5]

My husband picked this up in the used book section at one of my favorite stores. I don't usually geek out over management theory books, but this book was enjoyable and inspirational to read. I guess this appealed to me because I need to believe that there are actually intelligent, motivational, human bosses out there somewhere.

[Nicole · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a great, quick read ... Whether you manage, or are managed, I think this has some excellent insight into employee retention and high quality workplace environments. I didn't really care for the "Tuesdays with Morrie" setting to give the management parables, but the message and concepts were essentially solid.

[Cindy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book made me stop and think about the real reasons behind how great work relationships work, and how current work relationships could be improved. It is sort of quirky, and that helped keep my attention. I read it in 2 - 3 page bursts, but that gave time for the ideas to sink in to my brain. An out-of-the-box management book.

[Steven · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked the concepts presented in the book, but the conversational style that it tried to use was choppy. There were places that don't flow nicely. I rated it a 4 for the content because I think it's worth reading and short enough to get past the choppiness.

[Kirk · Rating 5 out of 5]

Short and to the point, fun story, interesting read, well worth it if you want a perspective on being a better boss.

[Flavil Hampsten · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great read for managers and hiring professionals. Speaks about what employees look for in a boss and gives great tips on recruiting and retaining employees...and its not pay!

[Sai Kalyan]

nothing

[Muhammad Ali]

To be a gifted boss, you need to think OOB, be like Google, 3M. Give employees freedom to test out different things.