I’ve been getting questions in the last few days asking me, since the reader is not a manager, whether my book “The Footprint of Management” could still be of value to them.
These questions are a great symptom of just being valuable. If we continue to separate the worlds of subordinates and managers and assume that one world is one set of books, one set of information for one and another for the other, we will not get any closer.
This book is not just for managers and HR people, this book is for everyone who works somewhere and has a manager. The mission of this book is to help leaders to understand the reality and above all the temporality of their own being, but it is primarily for people who work with others and are not directly in a leadership role.
This book will help to understand the world of the leader and increase empathy between people, and on the other hand, it will perhaps also contribute to an improvement in the quality of leadership, where leaders allow themselves to be themselves and contribute to the autonomy of themselves and others.
There would be no destructive competition in the world, or differentiation between different groups, if no one wanted to lead anyone else – in the family, at work, at school, in the country, in friendships.
Many people do their work under pressure from others (including money) and mostly without realising it. However, from time to time, there is a feeling inside that, despite the outward goodness, signals itself “There’s something else somewhere!”.
We’re discovering that watching TV or scrolling on a smart screen after work, waiting for something exciting to happen, isn’t what makes us happy. As colleagues leave, each of us has probably wondered: have I stayed too long? These mixed feelings are a sign that you’re not (any more) doing the right thing, in line with who you are.
This book will help you to get clear about the kind of leadership you expect, and make your life choices accordingly. There is no such thing as bad or good leadership, it is the people in the leadership role with whom you either have something to give to each other or you don’t. But if a person perceives bad management, it should not be tolerated.
The book on leadership for non-executives can be found in bookshops, on jestribe.com and, for a dedication, by writing to me. 
