Motivation? Easy.
Leadership? No problem.
Performance management? Simple.

All of these statements are true if - and only if - you have the right people. Thats the really hard bit: choosing the right people. A chief executives dream is to have scientific help when choosing key people and Pixie Dust is that help - a book written as a fable from the heart.

The fable starts when all is well in a community; then, a recruitment exercise ends in the not-unfamiliar appointment from hell. The fable concludes with that fabulous feeling when a selection panel gets it right - that almost spiritual...

Pixie Dust II is a tale of performance management and change in the woodland community of Ten-Tree Wood. It consists of a series of stories all about leading change, which the author has experienced during his career and learned painful and salutary lessons. They include the very valued individual, who is facing self-imposed burn out - a more common problem than many of us care to admit. There is a story about a group who decide to challenge the establishment. Another story considers real performance contribution and how change should be introduced when it is found that we are doing the wrong...