Adrian Gostick, Chester Elton
ISBN: 0-471-77739-0
Cloth
176 pages
March 2006

Most employees feel invisible to their leadership-- and they prefer to stay hidden in the corporate shadow.? Invisible Employee, part fable, part business advice, teaches managers how to actively engage employees, finding out a way to bring out the best in them.? This book focuses on how managers can lead people from obscurity to achievement and take companies from ordinary to extraordinary by something as simple as setting a guiding vision, providing rewarding work, and then recognizing the right behaviors.? The premise of the book is a group of people that live and work on an island.? They pride themselves on being able to blend into their surroundings, becoming almost invisible.? They had learned that blending in kept them comfortable and safe from failure, criticism and exhaustion.? There was one problem with invisibility--if you did it well enough you could actually become extinct.? But extinction happened rarely, so they lived and worked together, side-by-side ignoring others strengths and weaknesses and just getting by.? One day a see-er (leader) was born-- he didn't know he was a leader, but he knew he was different-- he was completely visible!? And this is the story of how the island and workers went from just getting along to transforming itself into a paradise.