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Management vs. Employees

How Leaders Can Bridge the Power Gaps That Hurt Corporate Performance

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This book provides corporate leaders a roadmap for bridging the hierarchical gaps between management and employees to gain company-wide acceptance of transformative strategic initiatives. Serial entrepreneur Hayes Drumwright demonstrates how to take responsibility for uncovering and fusing the inspiration potential at all levels of your organization and neutralizing the culture of fear and apathy that corrodes the team and organizational commitments of your employees.

Why is there a divide between management and the employees they lead? Why does each group have such an incredibly hard time understanding each other? Why do over 70% of corporate initiatives fail? It isn’t because of a lack of communication from the top. And talking louder clearly isn’t going to fix it.

In Management vs Employees, Hayes Drumwright attacks a problem that has plagued companies for years. How do we bridge the power gap between management and employees in a way that inspires both to engage?

Having bootstrapped many businesses in various industries, Drumwright covers the mindset and methodologies leaders must utilize at all levels in organizations to close the gap on apathy and entitlement in order to create an engaged workforce that can scale companies organically.

Using stories from both perspectives and multiple company engagements you will learn how to build trust, gather input, distribute accountability, and make those you lead feel like an accomplice in the leader’s master plan.

"Hayes Drumwright is a world-class entrepreneur. And in this direct, provocative, and honest book, he describes both the path of his life and the route all of us can take to build something big. Along the way, he shows that a leader’s ultimate job is not to shield people from risk, but to help them learn and grow."

Daniel H. Pink, New York Times bestselling author of Drive and To Sell Is Human

"I believe a person who can turn a negative into a positive can never be defeated - this is brilliantly illustrated in Management vs Employees. Hayes Drumwright shares his stories of success, and, importantly, failure with a rare rawness that you will be grateful for again and again."

Greg McKeown, New York Times bestselling author of Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

What You'll Learn

How to better implement change in today’s over-complicated, over-structured enterpriseInspire the enterprise employee base to work with the same passion as the founders and executive team toward corporate successTraverse the often confusing array of new social media tools in order to better understand which tool is appropriate to which situation without creating more social noiseEnsure a 70% success rate for new initiatives instead of the current 70% failure rate critical to corporate productivity, profitability, and viabilityWho This Book Is For

The audience is segmented into three separate categories, all of which are clearly addressed and weighed-in on in each chapter: executives, entrepreneurs, middle management.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Us

Frontmatter
Chapter 1. Selfish and Selfless
Abstract
When I was 12 years old, I decided that I would be a millionaire by the time I was 30.
Hayes Drumwright
Chapter 2. Pour a Foundation
Abstract
“They Come First” is a concept that has led to many successes in my career. But the lessons that needed to occur before I fully embraced the concept were severe. The worst was losing my first company in 2000. That failure was the result of not paying attention to all of the previous experiences that were offering me chances to learn and operate more intelligently.
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Chapter 3. Grab Your Cape
Abstract
When my oldest two sons were small, I was looking for something we could do together that they would remember and look back on fondly when they were older. Since there was this thing called “the Internet,” driving all over looking for first edition books like I did with my dad didn’t really make sense. At 5 and 7 years old, they were probably a little too young to care about that anyway. I was browsing around on Amazon one evening and I found a book called Master Marvelworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Volume 1. It was comprised of the original 10 Spider-Man comic books written back in 1962. I decided I would give it a go.
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Them

Frontmatter
Chapter 4. What If “They” Don’t Like You?
Abstract
Assuming you have poured your foundation and donned your cape, there are two main hurdles to overcome if you are to move toward success: even if you believe that “they come first,” your employees may see it otherwise: as Us vs. Them. Entitlement and apathy are the two attitudes that are the bane of a leader’s existence and must be addressed.
Hayes Drumwright
Chapter 5. Stop Wasting Money On New Initiatives
Abstract
Trace3 had just grown from $110M to $186M in one year. From the outside, we looked like a wildly successful company. The problem was that if you walked into an executive meeting, it felt a bit like a Kardashian reality show. I would get on a whiteboard and pontificate, a few brave souls would disagree with me, and when they did I would very often end up talking over them and getting my way. There was fighting, but it wasn’t healthy. To compensate for how overbearing I was, there were cliques formed and people were having “meetings after the meeting” to vent their frustration to each other. Sadly, there was very little honest communication.
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Chapter 6. Barfing Downhill
Abstract
So how do we as leaders try and fight this corporate attribution error? I can tell you what most of us do.
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Bridges

Frontmatter
Chapter 7. Sourcing Pain
Abstract
One year into developing our platform, in working with different companies, we concluded that the order in which we try to engage large groups of people matters. “They Come First” was this terrific altruistic notion, but it turned out that most of the time “they” were not always willing participants.
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Chapter 8. Truth Seeking
Abstract
I was recently reading a book by CS Lewis who is most famously known for the Narnia series that includes The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
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Chapter 9. Minimum Viable Stuff
Abstract
My mom is an amazing baker.
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Chapter 10. Accidental Adoption
Abstract
There were some unintended consequences of working with many different companies applying the MVS methodology.
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Leaders Need Followers

Frontmatter
Chapter 11. Being versus Becoming
Abstract
The subject of expanding people’s capacity intrigues me, especially if it involves people I care for the most. How can you help others do it? To help them, I tried do it for myself first. Four companies later, I now feel I can attempt to write down what I have learned.
Hayes Drumwright
Chapter 12. Those We Serve
Abstract
I would like to present you with one last use-case that encompasses much of what has been covered in previous chapters. It is not a corporate use-case. It is based around helping others. It is around lifting up those who need a hand out of a bad situation.
Hayes Drumwright
Chapter 13. A Legacy of Failure
Abstract
I read David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell a little while ago. There were many stories in that book I found fascinating. But even years later one of the discussions that really stuck with me was how first generation immigrants worked so incredibly hard and what a difficult time they had transferring that work ethic onto the next generation. Why is that? Why is one generation so focused on “becoming” something, often to make sure their children have a better life than they did, while the next is often comfortable just “being”? (There is a great deal more to it and I would encourage you to read the book.)
Hayes Drumwright
Backmatter
Metadata
Title
Management vs. Employees
Author
Hayes Drumwright
Copyright Year
2017
Publisher
Apress
Electronic ISBN
978-1-4842-1675-0
Print ISBN
978-1-4842-1676-7
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1675-0