Sharpen Every Management Skill You Have – Q and A with Stan Slap

Q: What can a company expect by giving this book to its managers?

A: It can expect its managers to offer emotional commitment to the enterprise—unchecked and unhesitating support for the company and its success. It can expect managers to demand more personal fulfillment from their jobs but not necessarily more of their company. Large companies have already begun to buy this book for all their managers and for their B2B customers too—as a gift to help their success. I love that.

Q: What can a manager expect from reading this book?

A: Expect to sharpen every management skill you have that involves achieving results through others. Even more important, expect to learn how to turn your job into a mechanism for fulfilling your deepest personal values. If you’re dissatisfied with your life as a manager, this book is going to make you satisfied. If you’re pretty satisfied, this book is going to make you more satisfied. If you’re completely satisfied that’s good. A rich fantasy life is important to overall mental health.

Q: Why did you write Bury My Heart at Conference Room B?

A: I wrote it to make the business case for a manager’s humanity. We lose that and everyone’s in a whole lot of trouble. We save that—manager by manager and company by company—and we’ve saved ourselves.

In case the icy hand of altruism hasn’t gripped the enterprise by the throat, I also wrote it to help any organization achieve emotional commitment from its managers, which is worth more than their financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined.

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