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Love at Work? New Books Says It’s Not What You Think
Cleveland, OH, Feb 4, 2006--Commitment is the key to every successful relationship…including working ones. Between 70% and 80% of all workers are not emotionally committed to their work, costing the U.S. economy over $300 billion dollars annually. The cause of this emotional disconnect? Leaders who don’t know how to share the love. Author Tim Warneka discusses the importance of leaders valuing relationships and emotions at work in his new book: LEADING PEOPLE THE BLACK BELT WAY: CONQUERING THE FIVE CORE PROBLEMS FACING LEADERS TODAY (Asogomi, $29.95)
“The research shows that being a great leader is very similar to being a great lover,” says Warneka. “Leaders who understand how to relate to their workers, leaders who care for their workers, are shown to be more successful in the long run.” Drawing on the professional research he has done during the last 15 years, Warneka identified the five most crucial problems leaders must manage today. “Every single one of the problems focus on how leaders manage relationships,” notes Warneka.
“The results were quite surprising,” observed Warneka. “Very literally, effective leadership is loving leadership.”
According to the American Management Association, despite the fact that leaders deal with people every day, very few leaders are actually trained in successful people skills. “Programs like Six Sigma are very important in terms of manufacturing,” notes Warneka, “but these programs were never designed to address the ‘people’ portion of the success equation.”
Combining the strength of Emotional Intelligence research with the power of the revolutionary non-violent martial art of Aikido, LEADING PEOPLE THE BLACK BELT WAY takes an objective, scientific approach toward helping leaders successfully manage the ‘people’ part of every success equation. The result is a readable and informative book.
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