The Management and Employee Development Review ─ Competitive Advantage through Transformative Teamwork and Evolved Mindsets

This book combines accepted psychological theory with practical business reality to help managers get the very best out of their employees and teams. The book will be extremely readable, loaded with real-world examples, figures, and sidebars. The central theme is basic: that any organization is only as good as the people within it. If those people are not hired, trained, coached, and promoted in the right way, with focused intent, then the organization has no mechanism to learn, improve, and grow. Now more than ever, people are the ultimate strategic advantage, and this book provides a step-by-step game plan to help organization develop employees with an eye toward sustained excellence.

Kelly Graves, CEO of Internal Business Solutions Inc., has for two decades helped individuals and organizations overcome their most daunting challenges and find success, on the understanding that most, if not all, organizational problems hinge on improving human communication and processes. Graves earned a bachelor’s degree in business and a master’s degree in psychology. He has consulted with corporations such as Build.com, AMain.com, KPMG, Caterpillar, Bloo Solar, Lufthansa Airlines, Valley Truck and Tractor, and Wells Fargo, as well as many family-owned businesses in need of unique transition and leadership services. Graves has written more than 65 published articles, including a biweekly column for the Chico Enterprise-Record called "Work Place" and regular contributions to Quality Digest Daily (more than 30,000 opted-in readers), American Business Journals (11.3 million unique visitors monthly and 1.4 million weekly readers in 42 U.S. markets), Sacramento Business Journal and CEO Magazine.