How To Demotivate Your Top Performers: A Manager’s Field Guide to Doing Everything Wrong (Without Even Trying) – E-Book (Copy)

Description

Somewhere in your company right now, someone is about to stop trying. This is the field guide that explains exactly how you got them there.

Every organization has a small number of people who make everything around them run better: the ones who finish early and ask for more, who get pulled into the fire nobody else wants to touch, who somehow raise the entire team’s output just by being on it. Left alone, they thrive.

How to Demotivate Your Top Performers is a step-by-step, entirely sincere field guide to what happens next.
Written in the voice of a genuine management manual, and organized the way any serious field guide should be, this book walks through the full, quiet arc of burnout, from the first missed piece of recognition to the exit interview where nothing actually gets learned. Inside, you’ll find:

• How to reward competence with more work, and loyalty with silence
• Why constructive feedback so often arrives late, vague, or not at all
• The five employee types every manager actually has on their team, and what quietly breaks each one
• How praise inflation, credit redistribution, and the open door policy nobody uses all work together
• What the exit interview will, and will not, ever tell you

None of the techniques in this book are invented. Every one of them is already in use somewhere today, usually by a well-intentioned manager who would be uncomfortable seeing it written down this plainly.

Whether you’re a manager who wants to recognize these patterns before they cost you your best people, or you’ve already watched someone quietly check out and want the words for what happened, this book names it, one mistake at a time.

Drawing on more than thirty years managing people and programs, and a parallel career as a professional dog trainer, Joann Bertsche has seen this pattern from both sides of the leash.

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