POWER SHIFT: THE NEW RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
By Dr. Sherry Buffington and Marc Schwartz
THREE TYPES OF LEADERS IN THE NEW GENERATION
ISBN-13: 978-0-9981747-0-9
Published: July 1, 2016
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Leaders and managers today are desperately searching for ways to fit the incoming workforce into the existing workplace and have them follow protocol and perform as expected.
The problem: New generations have little interest in playing that game. They operate by a completely different set of rules sustained by deeply held core values that are sharply divergent from the values of previous generations and from workplace expectations.
Though the ideals of youth mature over time, core values never change. To get the best from the emerging workforce and meet organizational goals, the focus must shift from trying to change the people to changing the game.
The small, incremental changes that once worked no longer get the desired results. And it’s unlikely they ever will. The values and mindset of newer generations are not creating a mere ripple – they are driving a tidal wave that’s bringing with it a global power shift unlike any in recorded history.
Power Shift prepares leaders and managers to ride that wave successfully. It provides an in-depth examination of the factors leading to this great shift and the awareness, insights and tools for harnessing the energy and talents of the new workforce.
This book presents models of companies that have embraced the new rules of engagement and experienced unprecedented growth and profits as a result. And it lays out a blueprint leaders can use to influence the direction of the inevitable power shift and ensure that their organization not only survives, but thrives.
The ideas and strategies outlined in Power Shift are indispensable to leaders and managers today and into the future.
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Millennials are Changing the Way We Do Business
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By Robert Kon
October 10, 2016
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As an executive in the hospitality industry, I employ over 500 team members, many of them millennials, but also gen-x and baby-boomers. In a competitive staffing environment we strive to continue to improve and adapt our management, recruiting and compensation packages to appeal to and especially motivate and retain our diverse staff base. Power Shift is an intriguing “how-to” manual, giving us valuable (and relevant) insight into each “type” of team member. Understanding perception of leadership and environment from the point of view of a millennial compared to gen-x or baby-boomer was incredibly eye-opening. I truly enjoyed the book, especially the easy writing style (doesn’t read like a textbook), the case studies and the build-up to the final chapter on Systems for Success.
Excellent how-to manual for leadership in the 21st century
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By M Youngblood
October 10, 2016
Reviewed On Amazon.com
With Power Shift, Dr. Sherry Buffington and Marc Schwartz have laid out an excellent how-to manual for leadership in the 21st century.
The book is positioned as a guide for leading the emerging Millennial generation, but it could just as easily have been written as a guide for leadership period. The authors go beyond mere advocacy and offer many practical insights and practices that you can implement right away. I am an executive coach with 25 years of experience, and still gained several insights I have already started using with my clients. The model for authentic leadership fits perfectly into the principles of Conscious Leadership which is one of the 4 key pillars of Conscious Capitalism. The “8 Myths of Leadership” are some of the most cogent arguments I have read for transforming the predominant hierarchical and directive style of management. I highly recommend this book!
There’s an Awakening Taking Place in Corporate America
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There’s an awakening taking place in corporate America, driven by an increasing pace of change for a new generation of employees passionately committed to living the values we all espouse — collaboration, work-life balance, and serving a greater good.”
Now more than ever, purpose-driven leaders working for purpose-driven companies have a distinct competitive advantage when attracting and retaining talent. Today’s best leaders will inspire the best from a multi-generational workforce giving every employee freedom to excel while rejecting the old imperatives of structure, control, and coercion.
Sherry and Marc thoughtfully remind us that effective leadership is all about people — understanding, inspiring and influencing — not control. Open this book and take off on an exhilarating ride explaining “the greatest power shift in history,” and get ready to start dismantling some of your company’s antiquated rules and customs that will unleash engaged leaders at all levels!
Wonderful Guidebook for the Global Leader of the Future
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Powershift: The New Rules of Engagement is a wonderful guidebook for the global leader of the future!
It shows how leadership is evolving – what it was in the past, what it is today and what it is going to be tomorrow, and provides great coaching for a new generation of leaders!
For Leaders Who Want to Makes a Difference in Today’s World
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Power Shift: The New Rules of Engagement is for leaders who want to create an organization and culture that makes a difference in today’s world.
The approach and strategies promoted in Power Shift seek to ensure that individuals find meaning in the work they do, so that business can become a positive and transformative influence.
Every Leader Needs to Read Power Shift
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Every leader needs to read Power Shift, a definitive book which provides a startling look at the way Millennials are shaping organizational change and the driving a dramatic shift in power few could have predicted fifteen years ago.
It explains how divergent Millennial values are affecting organizations, large and small, around the globe, and why employee engagement remains persistently low in spite of continual efforts to improve it.
Learn why traditional leadership models are not working and why it is critically important for leaders and managers to learn a more effective model now so they are able to motive Millennials, influence the direction in which power flows, and help shape the businesses of the future
It is useful to be aware of change
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By Steve Strauss
February 11, 2017
This is an important book. Clear, well-written, engaging. As ‘The Fourth Turning’ illuminated, the world is continually changing and evolving. It is useful to be aware of, and take advantage of, the current change. Sherry and Marc describe the generational shift which is effecting all organizations and their leaders. I’ve been recommending this book to others who are on the front edge of change.
Understand the changes in the workplace
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By Brent Hultman
February 8, 2017
Very insightful and applicable. This is a must read for folks who want to engage and realize the potential that resides in every team.
Five Stars
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An excellent book that really gives great insight into what leadership needs to look like going forward!
Prior to reading the Power Shift book and using the techniques in the book I thought my team was performing the best I could exp
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By Aimee P.
October 2, 2016
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The team that I am responsible for managing range in age from 23-65. It is a dynamic environment that sometimes involves life and death issues. Prior to reading the Power Shift book and using the techniques in the book I thought my team was performing the best I could expect. I was using tools and ideas from management books and training I had received in the past and still had a team with a lot of disciplinary and training issues. They often needed reminders and follow up and did not seem very happy or engaged. After about three months and with some trial and error of applying the book to my management style I was able to make dramatic improvements in the team. We now have significantly less repeat training and disciplinary action. Most importantly the team works to help each other, is happier, more productive, less stressed. In turn this also allows me as a manger to have less stress and I am able to successfully manage my team and exceed company goals.
Aimee P. , Manager
Discuss the weaknesses of each generation and give excellent advice for influencing all generations to do their best …
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By Alan Allard
October 13, 2016
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There are many books on leadership, personality styles and generational difference in the workplace. Finding one book that covers it all in a seamless fashon, supported by research and brought to life with engaging stories is a rare find. This book is that rare find. Sherry Buffington, Ph.D. and Marc Schwartz have a positve view (and an accurate one, in my opinion) of the newer generations, not just the “older” ones. They highlight the strengths, discuss the weaknessesof each generation and give excellent advice for influencing all generations to do their best work and to live their best lives.
The chapter on “Getting the Best From People” is worth the price of the entire book but you will want what’s in ther rest of the book. This book isn’t just for leaders and managers. It’s for anyone who wants to understand themselve and others better and who wants to understand human behavior and performance and how to influence self and others more effectively.
A Book on the Leadership of Understanding
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By Bruce Chodosh
March 21, 2017
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As a management consultant to many corporations, I see the impact of what happens when leadership does not understand the principles of leading a new generation. We live in extraordinary times when breakthrough ideas and innovation are absolutely essential. Sherry Buffington and Marc Schwartz in their book Power Shift have the essence of how to manage a diverse workforce in such rapidly changing times.
They demonstrate that a “Leadership of Understanding” and the tools that support it, is now the leadership model that will lead to inspiration and performance of each generation. The book is enriched by fascinating stories and complex ideas have been distilled into simple, easy-to-implement concepts, processes, and exercises. Power Shift is a must read for leaders of a diverse workforce and for traditional workers who are re-entering today’s organizations.
“Power Shift” is like having your own Executive Consultant / Coach in the office with you!
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By Jill Pickett
October 3, 2016
Reviewed on Amazon.com
“Power Shift” is easy to understand and filled with solid research, interesting facts, great business stories, and guidance with the ‘whys’ behind how to effectively and permanently shift the exhausting reality of America’s disengaged young workforce. “Power Shift” is direct. For busy executives and business owners, it has a load of powerful tools and resources that make sense and are immediately useable to instantly empower you and your workforce!
Power Shift Will Make a Big Difference To ALL Leaders & Managers
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By Janice B.
September 30, 2016
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Power Shift provided some very unique insights and strategies on how Baby Boomers have to shift their approach to leadership if they are going to stay relevant in business. The section on Structured Freedom was especially insightful in terms of where most organizational cultures need to evolve to in order to better tap into the energy and commitment of younger workers. A must read for those interested in taking their leadership skills and capabilities to the next level.
This amazing book is a must read for anyone interested in …
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By Peggy Wilson
October 7, 2016
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This amazing book is a must read for anyone interested in creating work environments that are solid, engaged and productive. Power Shift acts as a guide to navigating the waters between generations to return the focus of the workplace to productivity and goal achievement, personally and professionally. Thank you Marc Schwartz and Sherry Buffington for this careful study of millennials and the new rules of engagement.
“A revolution in cultivating a healthy, successful, and dynamic leadership mindset for an engaged workforce.”
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By MDP
October 10, 2016
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Power Shift: The New Rules of Engagement is a revolution in cultivating a healthy, successful, and dynamic leadership mindset for an engaged workforce. Sherry Buffington and Marc Schwartz deconstruct outdated and ineffective leadership beliefs while clearly communicating successful principles that lead to positively stimulating and engaging the rapidly expanding millennial workforce.
This is an amazing look at how this generation will change the world
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By Ed
April 11, 2017
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This is an amazing look at how this generation will change the world. I was especially taken by the idea that business management must change now or see their companies fall behind. This is truly leading edge stuff. Worth reading more than once!
Highly recommend!
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By Mike Sebastian
October 19, 2016
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Phenomenal read. Highly recommend!
Applying the book to my management style I was able to make dramatic improvements in the team
The team that I am responsible for managing ranges in age from 23-70. It is a dynamic environment that sometimes involves life and death issues. Prior to reading the Power Shift book and using the techniques in the book I thought my team was performing the best I could expect. After about three months and with some trial and error of applying the book to my management style I was able to make dramatic improvements in the team. We now have significantly less repeat training and have had no additional disciplinary action.
An essential clarion call for leaders, managers
Wow, where has this book been? It is an essential clarion call for leaders, managers, and anyone at all who spends any time with people of another generation. In easily accessible language and concepts, it provides new, clear insights and practical ways to be most successful as an individual and at an organizational level and make the most of the future that is upon us.
Power Shift will help you increase performance in your organization
Powerful, practical and solid advice on how to engage all employees with confidence. Applying the tips, tools, and techniques in Power Shift will help you increase performance in your organization.
Must-read book for any and all business owners who want to drive the future growth
“Sherry Buffington and Marc Schwartz have hit the nail right on the head and put together this must-read book for any and all business owners who want to drive the future growth and profits of their businesses. Power Shift: The New Rules of Engagement gives you the tools to create an organization and culture in your business that makes a difference in today’s world. If you have you ever wondered, “is there an easier way to more effectively lead younger employees,” then this is the book for you. This is essential with the younger generations because of the unique values that form the foundations of their beliefs. The specific strategies spelled out in this book go a long way in defining the challenges and the answers to those challenges associated with developing high performers across multiple generations. This book is a warehouse full of tips, tools and hands-on approaches for everyone in your business. In business, as in life, you either evolve or dissolve. Nothing stays the same. If you’re not putting these tools into practice to grow your business, it’s going backward.”
A clear roadmap for developing deeper connections between managers and Millennials
Power Shift will trigger a new mindset around understanding the unique value proposition Millennials want and what they offer at work. Millennials are craving growth, development and intellectual stimulation far more than money, title and recognition. The authors provide a broader understanding of the most effective leadership strategies and a clear roadmap for developing deeper connections between managers and Millennials.
Power Shift is a must-read for anyone who wants to survive and thrive in business
Power Shift is a must-read for anyone who wants to survive and thrive in business during the next several years. The global workforce power shift is upon us and this book provides even seasoned leaders with the insights and tools for harnessing the energy of all generations…especially younger workers.
