Ignited
Managers - Light Up!
For More Power More Purpose And More Success

Ignited takes a real-world view of the challenges managers face when attempting to lead with limited time and resources.

Today’s mid-line leaders no longer live on safe ground. There are fewer hiding places and the increased accountability has leaders squeezed like never before, to produce quality results, or face the real possibility of being replaced. It is a sad reality that approximately 65% of all managers who were recently surveyed feel squeezed, rather than empowered, by their roles. They are more confused about where the lines of authority are within their organizations, and they feel compelled to defend their turf more than ever before.

Ignited: Managers! Light Up Your Company and Career for More Power More Purpose and More Success is brilliant in the way that it speaks to managers who are experiencing this sort of pressure in the workplace.

While the first section of the book talks about gaining more Power, the second section delves deeply into how a manager can get more Purpose in their role.

In Ignited, managers are encouraged to take a pro-active approach to adding value to their organization, in an all-out effort to get re-discovered and ensure future advancement in the company. By taking action to provide solutions to current problems, managers can redefine themselves.

Author, Vince Thompson, states that this action benefits the reader in several ways:

• It establishes you as supportive of upper management rather than as a malcontent and potential rebel.
• It gives you a role in established the future order – which may mean an opportunity to shape to your liking.
• It makes you all the more essential to any “new guys” who end up running your operation – after all, who better to interpret and manage the new system than the one who helps to create it?
• It proves you with a positive outlet for the nervous energies inevitably stimulated by a corporate shakeup.
• And it adds value to the company – which is what they pay you for, remember this always!

Ignited says to middle managers to become an expert at the “processes” within their organization. This can be a huge advantage, particularly when an organization is rocked by internal change.

There will always be a need for the person who holds the map and know how to read it within any organization.

In this book, Thompson points out that many organization fail to keep up with their competition due to being heavily inward focused. They lose sight of the landscape around them and they fail to leverage their network for current trends and key information. Vendors of every organization can provide critically important information if asked. Aside from your customers, your vendors are your most knowledgeable group of constituents.

For example, vendors have a unique view of your business than any other group. In many cases, they work with your competitors and have key information about the market, about customers, and about emerging trends that many highly impact your business.

“The closer your relationship with vendors are, the better your chances of learning some of this information early enough to use it for your benefit.”

Another key lesson provided in Ignited was where the author talks about “working the plan”.

In a nutshell, working the plan, means developing a solution that is solidly grounded in everything you’ve learned while in the information-gathering mode and that you have a reasonable chance of selling to the key decision-makers in your company.

In four steps, Thompson says to: Define the problem; Explore the costs of failure; Explore the benefits of success; and Outline a solution.

Simple, simple, simple!

We encourage our readers to add Ignited to their personal leadership library.

To learn more about Vince Thompson and community of Ignited managers, visit BeIgnited.com

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