Ignited (paperback): Managers! Light Up Your Company and Career for More Power More Purpose and More Success
- By Vince Thompson
- Published Mar 16, 2007 by FT Press.
- Copyright 2007
- Dimensions: 6 X 9
- Pages: 320
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-13-706089-0
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-706089-4
- eBook (Watermarked)
- ISBN-10: 0-13-241192-X
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-241192-9
Register your product to gain access to bonus material or receive a coupon.
Product Author Bios
VINCE THOMPSON, principal at Middleshift Consulting, works with Internet companies to design world-class online marketing solutions and build sales organizations empowering those in the middle. His clients include Napster, StarStyle.com, and Break.com.
Thompson has spent 15 years as a middle manager leading teams in challenging industries and hotbeds for learning: first in restaurants, then in television, and now in the Internet business. He spent seven years as Regional Vice President of Sales for America Online. There, he designed AOL’s sales training organization, managed teams in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Dulles, VA; and served as Regional Vice President of AOL’s Southwestern Region, where his teams led AOL's West Coast Entertainment and Auto relationships.
He is a featured online expert in the Quantum Sales Training Series, has spoken widely on online advertising, and has contributed to the Iowa Press textbook Media Selling.
Thompson holds an undergraduate degree in Communications from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communications, and an MBA from Pepperdine University. He lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife and two daughters.
To learn more about Vince Thompson and the community of Ignited managers, visit www.BeIgnited.com.
More Power, More Purpose, and More Success for Managers
Have you ever been maligned, misunderstood, downsized, reengineered, reorganized, or even misled? Even in the best organizations, you face brutal competition, non-stop pressure, and relentless change.
Ignited reveals the gathering forces that will offer you unprecedented opportunities to reshape your career and organization. It outlines clear, realistic steps for leveraging your networks and resources to transform your vision into reality, and accomplish powerful goals only you can achieve. This is not another diatribe on leadership or grand strategic vision written by those already at the top: the Jack Welches or Rudy Giulianis who can simply dictate their visions to the organization. Ignited is for those leading from the middle: managers who need real tools to make a real difference. If you’re ready to take back your business, your career, and your life, Ignited is for you.
More Power
- Learn how to lead in a limited space
- Power up your network, expand your influence
- Overcome the traps of time, powerlessness, and negative emotions
- Drive meaningful strategic change across your company and industry
More Purpose
- Harness the power of seven key ignition points for achieving your highest purpose
- Accomplish the powerful goals you’re uniquely positioned to achieve
- Master the new roles of linkmaker, process master, pilot, healer, bard, scout, and translator
- Connect your personal passions with your company’s goals
More Success
- Master a system for selling your vision, and succeeding with the projects you’re most passionate about
- Live your best life, not just your company’s
|
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Very Useful, By
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Ignited: Managers! Light Up Your Company and Career for More Power More Purpose and More Success (Hardcover)
I wish this book were around sooner, I wouldn't have struggled near as much as I progressed through my career. Vince Thompson has provided some very practical ideas for everyone who may be struggling with different corporate cultures. As a CEO of a midsize company I will recommend this book to all managers in our company, it will help them and the company to be more successful.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Targeted specifically to middle management..., By
This review is from: Ignited: Managers! Light Up Your Company and Career for More Power More Purpose and More Success (Hardcover)
Middle management is one of the toughest positions in corporate America. You're expected to run things successfully, while often not having enough sway and power to implement your plans. A book that aims to remedy that is Ignited: Managers! Light Up Your Company and Career for More Power More Purpose and More Success by Vince Thompson. An excellent book that should be on the shelf of every manager...Contents: Introduction - Living in Quake Country; Base Camp - The Ignited Quiz Part 1 - Get More Power: Action with Traction; The Manager's Universe; Leadership in Limited Space; Managing Your Emotions; The Deadly Lack of Empowerment Trap Part 2 - Get More Purpose: Ignition Point 1 - The Process; Ignition Point 2 - The People; Ignition Point 3 - The Message; Ignition Point 4 - The Landscape; Ignition Point 5 - The Strategy; Ignition Point 6 - The Story; Ignition Point 7 - The Spirit Part 3 - Get More Success: Selling From The Fulcrum; Your Own Sense of... Read more
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Ignited Will Ignite All Managers, By
This review is from: Ignited: Managers! Light Up Your Company and Career for More Power More Purpose and More Success (Hardcover)
Vince Thompson's Ignited will ignite managers at all levels if they will read it and take its lessons seriously. Most business books are aimed at CEOs, and too often deal in cutely phrased and fuzzy theories. Thompson's book is hard-core practical and gives case study examples of how managers can have a significant impact on a company's direction and their own careers. If you feel stuck, read Ignited.
|
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION: LIVING IN QUAKE COUNTRY 1
BASE CAMP: THE IGNITED QUIZ 13
Part I GET MORE POWER
1 ACTION WITH TRACTION 19
2 THE MANAGER’S UNIVERSE 39
3 LEADERSHIP IN LIMITED SPACE 57
4 MANAGING YOUR EMOTIONS 79
5 THE DEADLY LACK OF EMPOWERMENT TRAP 97
Part II GET MORE PURPOSE
6 IGNITION POINT 1: THE PROCESS 117
7 IGNITION POINT 2: THE PEOPLE 137
8 IGNITION POINT 3: THE MESSAGE 153
9 IGNITION POINT 4: THE LANDSCAPE 167
10 IGNITION POINT 5: THE STRATEGY 187
11 IGNITON POINT 6: THE STORY 207
12 IGNITION POINT 7: THE SPIRIT 227
Part III GET MORE SUCCESS
13 SELLING FROM THE FULCRUM 247
14 YOUR OWN SENSE OF BALANCE 271
INDEX 281
This book includes free shipping!
This book includes free shipping!
eBook (Watermarked)
$34.99
$27.99
This PDF will be accessible from your Account page after purchase and requires the free Adobe® Reader® software to read it.
The eBook requires no passwords or activation to read. We customize your eBook by discretely watermarking it with your name, making it uniquely yours.
- Request an Instructor or Media review copy.
- Corporate, Academic, and Employee Purchases
- International Buying Options
Get access to thousands of books and training videos about technology, professional development and digital media from more than 40 leading publishers, including Addison-Wesley, Prentice Hall, Cisco Press, IBM Press, O'Reilly Media, Wrox, Apress, and many more. If you continue your subscription after your 30-day trial, you can receive 30% off a monthly subscription to the Safari Library for up to 12 months. That's a total savings of $199.
