Managing Einsteins

Today's new breed of technologically gifted employees often think and respond differently than their more traditional counterparts did. Managing Einsteins is the first book with tips and traps for managing these highly valued, fiercely independent workers­­ — and, just as important, keeping them out of the grasp of your talent-starved competitors.

• Introduction: Einsteins in the Workplace
• Part One: Realities of the Twenty-First Century
  1. Profiling Einstens
• Part Two: Managing Einsteins: Challenges and Actions
  2. Recruiting Einsteins
  3. Motivating Einstens
  4. Retaining and Rewarding Einsteins
  5. Communicating with Einsteins
  6. Leading Einstens
  7. Tribes and Teamwork
  8. Disciplining and Dealing with Difficult Einsteins
  9. Etiquette and Manners
  10. Carfe and Growth of Einsteins
• Part Three: Building for the Future
  11. Humor and Fun at Work
  12. Remote and International Einsteins
  13. Managing, Leading, and Facilitating Einsteins
  • Epilogue
• Appendix
  • Resources For Einstein Managers
  • Reference Notes

Pretty meaningless book. Takes a view of the "IT" staff as some half-gods and tries to make a case on how bad managers should handle them, instead of trying to make "bad" managers into "reasonable good" ones.

In the end, this is crap, nicely packaged.