As you're well aware, your individual energy ebbs and flows—leading to high
and low productivity cycles. Fail to manage your energy correctly, and you risk falling
into traps including inertia, complacency, and frenzied, unfocused activity that only
erodes the quality of your life.
The same holds true for your entire organization.
In Fully Charged, Heike Bruch and Bernd Vogel provide tools and strategies
to help you manage your company's collective energy.
First, diagnose your company's "energy state" using the
Organizational Energy Matrix. By assessing the intensity (high or low) and the quality
(positive or negative) of the energy in your enterprise, you discover which of four energy
states your company is experiencing.
Second, move your company out of dangerous states characterized by complacency,
cynicism, aggression, withdrawal, and other perils. By applying practices mastered by
companies as diverse as Airbus, Novartis, SAP, and Tata Steel, you can shift your firm
into a state of high, positive energy—in which everyone is emotionally engaged, mentally
alert, and working swiftly and productively toward critical goals.
Practical and backed by extensive research, Fully Charged reveals how to
continually refresh your company's energy—so it's always ready to tackle the next period
of high demand.
Heike Bruch is Professor Leadership at the Institute for Leadership
and Human Resource Management at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, and the
founder and research director of the Organizational Energy Program (OEP). Bernd Vogel is
Assistant Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior at the Henley Business
School, University of Reading, United Kingdom.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Leadership Is the Art of Orchestrating Energy 1
1 The Energy Matrix 21
2 Mobilizing Your Organization's Energy: Escaping the Complacency Trap 61
3 Rebuilding Positive Energy: Escaping the Corrosion Trap 105
4 Focusing Your Organization's Energy: Escaping the Acceleration Trap 139
5 Sustaining Energy to Rise Above Number One: Getting Beyond the Traps
6 Energizing Leaders: Personal Perspectives on Boosting Energy 225
Appendix: How to Assess Your Organization's Energy 239
Notes 247
Index 257
About the Authors 271
288 pages, Hardcover