Charles Herrick

With a mixture of humor, common sense, and lots of solid management experience from his IBM days, Charles Herrick provides a completely different perspective and set of solutions for managing in the Millennial era. It's a subject he knows well since the tech firm he is now building has a 100% Millennial workforce. The key is to understand how wrong the personnel practices are that were established over the last 200 years and then do some counterintuitive things to get it right. The result will be a working environment that fits with our tribal instincts about basic human fairness in a social setting. There is a chapter and some additional insights offered on Women that may cause people to take a whole different view of this underutilized resource - a talent pool which, despite the current narrative that says the genders are all but identical, can bring some hidden power, not to mention a harmonizing element to your company. This book makes a great companion read to his other important management book A Guide to Managing Earthlings, now used by a number of large companies to guide their management and executive practices. The book is worth reading just for the footnotes. But taken in a wholistic approach, it's worth rereading a couple of times, just to get the overall sense of how things should be and the many ways we have open to us to get it right for the first time in centuries. We can all benefit from a more enlightened approach and a better working environment. It's not just for the younger generation. The thinking they have introduced to our workplace since about 2006 is now catching on. This book is for every generation because we're in this together. It turns out that We're All Millennials on This Bus.

A greatly expanded version of his original work, Breath of Kenya, Medicine, Mystery and Women in Rural Africa delightfully and dramatically relives the experience of a lone white adventurer on his first missionary journey to a primitive and remote African village. Charles Herrick lives among the mud huts and strange customs of Kenya in a manner not unlike the Africa of centuries gone by. He comes across a creeping health malady that is killing scores of villagers. Though not a doctor, he determines to resolve it. Written in an engaging style that takes you from intrigue to abhorrence, empathy to anger, the quirky humor often makes you laugh out loud while offering a balance to the tragic occurrences captured so poignantly and personally. In this version there is a significantly greater focus on the women of rural Kenya captures the eerie taboos and rituals as well as the daunting daily lives of village women. Some of it is shocking. Some of it is maddening. Most of it you have never heard of before. You will come to admire the strength of the women of Kenya. This book touches the heart, the mind and the funny bone. It is one of those books that pulls you in, holds onto you and makes you see things a little differently for a at least a brief period of time - but most likely forever.

This book will permanently change the way you run your business. Combining his years of IBM management training with some critically important management templates for the new Millennium, he takes you through real life situations in a narrative style. It's fun reading and very moving at times. Spiced throughout the book are bold-type statements that all begin: "Here's the Rule: " The most critical rule is for managers to focus on WHAT vs. HOW. Real executives know "what" to do. Annoying bosses focus on personalities and "how" people are acting. Crossing the bridge from the annoying world of "how" management to the productive world of "what" management takes a bit of education and lots of examples. This newest version has a section on Millennials that may change your approach. It's all counterintuitive and you need to understand how that works. The Millennial challenge is forcing us to rethink how we have been approaching the treatment of people for the last two hundred years. Perhaps the most important addition to this book is the chapter at the end which lists 60 summary concepts - his Lefthander's Guide to Managing. Here are some examples: -A manager's job is to create problems for your employees to solve, not solve them all yourself. -A proper vision statement doesn't tell you where you're going to be in 5 years; it changes who you are right now And if you know who you are, you will know what to do. -You must earn the right to criticize, even if you're the boss. Performance must become a third-party element that you discuss objectively and collegially. -If the list for improving morale has more than two elements, you're reading from the wrong list. -Make the decision, then clean up the mess. Quit hedging or waiting until it's all fixed in advance. We leaders need to view ourselves as the head of a tribe because our employees view themselves as members of a tribe, instinctively. They don't want to see themselves as replaceable parts in some organic machine. When we treat them that way, we hurt not only them but everyone around them because we disrupt an instinctive, tribal sense of what should be. Any short-term gain achieved by removing that one part is greatly outweighed by the systemic damage done by creating an environment that is not secure for all. That's the practicality and the humanity of it. The sad thing is, most managers have no training and therefore no way of forming a basis to determine truly good management. A Guide to Managing Earthlings tries to make up for the fact that most companies don' have a management culture. It's a book that will help create the basis for such a culture and success in business will follow. It's an enjoyable book to read, even if you don't plan to manage Earthlings or anyone else.

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