Miserable Job, Anyone?

I have been a faithful reader of Patrick Lencioni. When I found out his latest book was out at the bookstore, I went to The Borders @The Curve to check it out.

I finished reading the last chapter at The Borders. When I realized it has a 20% discount, I decided to get it first hand. Older books of Lencioni are usually bundled as box set as Christmas gift. So if you are thinking of collecting them or giving them away as gift, check out the box set. Lencioni has 5 books so far.

His latest offering "The Three Signs of a Miserable Job" is another runaway success just like his other books. I have extracted part of the interview of the author specifically on the 3 SIGNS as below:

The first is anonymity, which is the feeling that employees get when they realize that their manager has little interest in them a human being and that they know little about their lives, their aspirations and their interests.

The second sign is irrelevance, which takes root when employees cannot see how their job makes a difference in the lives of others. Every employee needs to know that the work they do impacts someone’s life--a customer, a co-worker, even a supervisor--in one way or another.

The third sign is something I call "immeasurement," which is the inability of employees to assess for themselves their contribution or success. Employees who have no means of measuring how well they are doing on a given day or in a given week, must rely on the subjective opinions of others, usually their managers’, to gauge their progress or contribution.

For more information on the book, click here.