New summary available for Fully Charged

Dec. 12, 2014 - PRLog -- Organizational energy is tangible and measurable, and is a significant contributing factor to a company’s overall success. This energy is highly productive at its best, and corrosive to a company’s culture at its worst. Fortunately, energy is malleable. With the right leadership, culture, and strategies in place, companies can turn negative energy into sustainable, productive energy. In  Fully Charged, Heike Bruch and Bernd Vogel provide executives with an energy matrix and an Organizational Energy Questionnaire (OEQ) that lets them measure their overall company energy. They also provide strategies for managing energy and avoiding energy traps.

Every company has measurable organizational energy that can hold the company back or launch it to success. To create a fully charged company, executives must:

*Understand the company's energy. Using the energy matrix, leaders can identify and assess energy across the organization. The energy matrix breaks energy down into four types: productive, comfortable, resigned inertia, and corrosive.

*Mobilize the company's energy. There are two strategies to mobilize energy: slaying the dragon, which focuses on short-term goals, and winning the princess, which builds positive energy over time to reach long-term goals.

*Rebuild positive energy. Before leaders can build positive energy, they need to seek out and destroy corrosive energy. Once they have conquered this energy trap, they can use techniques to build up positive energy.

*Focus the organization's energy. This includes watching out for the acceleration trap, which begins as positive and productive energy but can quickly lead to unsustainable overacceleration.

*Sustain energy to rise above number one. Put the right management systems in place to sustain energy and avoid the complacency trap.

*Energize the leaders. Leaders must measure their own energy and model the appropriate behavior from the top down. When leaders exhibit positive energy and commitment, employees will follow suit.

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