(Newman Communications: Allston, MA) -- The myth of “a happy employee is a motivated employee” is exploded by the research outlined in the new book Hundred Percenters: Challenge Your Employees to Give It Their All, and They’ll Give You Even More (McGraw-Hill, 2009), which will be released in November.  

A happy employee is a motivated employee. You hear that idea so often that it’s practically dogma. But what if it’s wrong? Author Mark Murphy, CEO and founder of Leadership IQ, exposes just that. Companies across the nation are collectively spending billions of dollars trying to satisfy and engage their employees to get greater performance. Yet 72 percent of employees admit they’re still not giving their best effort at work.

Murphy reveals new research from more than 500,000 employees and leaders about why the “happy employee” philosophy has failed. Culled from the same research, he introduces exciting new techniques to stop making people happy and start making them great. Readers will learn a leadership style that inspires employees to passionately give 100 percent every day (i.e., to become Hundred Percenters).

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