The Dream Manager is a creative attempt by the internationally known speaker and author Matthew Kelly, who has written a remarkable business parable about how a company can achieve remarkable results by helping their employees fulfill their dreams. An author of repute, he is also well known for his keynote presentations all over the world, addressing to audiences of over three million people in conferences and conventions.
His impressive list of conferences includes names like Fortune 500 companies, national trade associations, professional organizations, universities, churches and various NGO’s. The Dream Manager is his first fictional book.
"What is your dream?" Asks Kelly. When he asks this question he believes that it is the dream that define a person’s frame of mind, his attitude toward life, his personality, his future aspirations and his goals. As Kelly explains:
- We become our dreams. You tell me what your dreams are and I shall tell what sort of a person you are. Your dreams tell me not only what sort of a person you are today, but also what sort of a person you aspire to be in the tomorrows of your life ... Helping people chase and fulfill their dreams is one of the primary functions of all relationships, whether that relationship is between husband and wife, parent and child, or employer and employee.
The book follows a simple theory that we can reach our own dreams if we help other people reach theirs. He explores the link between the private dreams of a person who is working for a company and that of his attitude towards work. He believes that everyone is nurturing and secretly chasing a personal dream and a good manager tries to explore that private dream and connect it to the current work scenario of the employee to get the best out of them.
Many companies are grappling with the growing problem of company disengagement and Kelly asserts that a dynamic collaboration is attained when the employees are motivated enough to work together and achieve company objectives and realize personal dreams.
In The Dream Manager Matthew Kelly has written about a fictionalized company that is struggling with the inevitable problems of low morale and high turnover. The hapless managers of that company are scratching their heads and trying to figure out what is going wrong with the company and why is it lagging behind in achieving the essential target.
They set out to investigate the problems and threats that are afflicting the motivation of the employees and they discover the illuminating truth that more often than not it is not a bigger pay packet or higher designation that the employees are looking for, but rather the fulfillment of their own fundamental dreams.
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