Breaking the Mould

What a brilliant title for a great little book. The temptation is to go straight away and see if your own reasons are there.

My first instinct was to check off my own experience on the list, which reads like the sort of 360 degree feedback that many managers deserve and seldom get.
I am happy to say that I found there everything that I thought I would.

I don’t want to repeat the list here, that is the job of the book, but on reading it I am happy to report that for every reason stated, why an employee hates their manager, there is an unequivocal solution that tells the errant manager exactly what to change to stop having this destructive effect on his workforce.

30 different lessons though is a hard thing to swallow even if as managers we are committed to increasing the value that we give to the workforce.

The conclusion of the book addresses the sum of the thirty lessons in a nutshell.

“If you want to stop your workforce from hating you, do something different.”

In most cases this simply involves not doing the things that make them angry and for anyone who is not sure what that is, refer to the list in this book.

The book is simply stated, very readable, and pursues the title throughout to the obvious conclusion for all non managers, “A Happy workforce is a productive workforce.”

At what point did we forget such an obvious truth.

Peter A Hunter
Author – Breaking the Mould
www.breakingthemould.co.uk