Managing Yourself Managing Others
Editorial Reviews
From the Inside Flap
“Steve Darter's book reinforces for me the enormous value I extracted from the SIMA process and the understanding of my own MAP."
Frederick J. Sievert
Vice Chairman
New York Life Insurance Company
“Your performance, the performance of your team, and the performance of the organization will dramatically improve if you apply the principles contained in this book. If you're not excited and energized after reading this book check your pulse.”
Richard G. Barnaby
Retired President and Chief Operating Officer
Kaiser Permanente.
“As a result of the SIMA process, I have seen light bulbs go on as individuals realize what makes them tick. Steve is adept at capturing the essence of a person's strengths. It's uncanny how he is able to distill such pearls from the complexities that characterize people's life experiences. I have worked with Steve to profile leadership teams in two, top tier companies. To a person, executives found the process extremely valuable and insightful.”
Linda H. Lewis, Ed.D
Senior Vice President, Learning and Education
Charles Schwab & Company
“Managing Yourself, Managing Others contains information, insights and understandings that will endure throughout one's business career, and beyond. A truly impactful approach to understanding business and personal motivations and success factors.”
James E. Miller
Executive Vice President
MassMutual Financial Group
“To learn what motivates you and your people to be effective and advance your organization, invest the time to read Steve Darter's book.”
R.Channing Wheeler
Chief Executive Officer, Uniprise
A UnitedHealth Group Company
“SIMA and People Management have been enormously helpful to me and the organizations I have served. People's gifts and God given talents are described accurately by SIMA. It is a practical approach that honors the individual. I had my SIMA done over twenty five years ago and I still appreciate the insights.”
Albert Quie
Former Governor, Minnesota
“Not just very interesting and intriguing reading, but a very useful and practical tool. We used SIMA extensively for managerial hiring, internal moves and promotions as well as career planning. We found it to be very accurate, and it should definitely be considered as a great predictive tool for job fit and successful assignments. I used to tell my staff ‘make sure this person gets ‘Darterized' before we make a final decision.”
Herman Fonteyne
Retired President & CEO
Ensign-Bickford Industries, Inc.
“This book addresses the very core of managing and presents the finest tool I've seen that promotes human development within the work place.”
Joseph Carlone
President and General Manager
Linemaster Switch Corporation
“I have found SIMA to clarify the basic strengths that people bring to their work. I have used SIMA in my own personal decision making, with members of my family, in staffing my offices."
David Durenberger
Former US Senator, Minnesota
“Managing Yourself, Managing Others is a must read for anyone who cares to fully comprehend and then optimize their own innate motivational forces or those of their employees.”
Dr. William B Sherwood
Vice President HR, Administration, & Infrastructure
Philips Research Labs “Steve Darter provides a concise way to understand each individual's strengths and Motivated Abilities Pattern (MAP). The proper application can result in more effective, satisfied employees and a more competitive organization.”
George Burman, Ph.D.
Dean, School of Management
Syracuse University
"For persons facing decisions, career changes, or seeking meaning in their lives your work is a solid foundation that uses the crucial threads of their life to develop and achieve the framework for their beliefs and choices... insightful, unusual, intelligent, and interesting."
Marylouise Fennell, RSM, Ed.D
Senior Consultant, Council of Independent Colleges
Past President, Carlow College (PA)
“Fortunately Steve Darter introduced me to SIMA as I was retiring from a long career in healthcare management. I used the understanding of my motivational pattern to create a consulting firm and the result has been very satisfying and financially successful.”
Sam Havens
Retired President, Prudential Healthcare
Former Chairman of the American Association of Health Plans
“A very powerful tool to improved productivity and enjoying your work. It has application to yourself, your employees, and your family - put it to good use!!!”
Eric B. Warming
Global Engineering Director
Dupont Dow Elastomers
“When I was first introduced to SIMA I thought it was just going to be another packaged approach to self discovery. However, it is, by far, the most productive assessment and personal awareness tool I have ever used. This book distills the entire process and its value thoroughly but clearly, and is a must read.”
Thomas Kilby
Former President
Waring Products
“Managing Yourself, Managing Others, brilliantly captures the relevance and value of linking individual potential to the needs of organizations."
Alfred G. Wilke
Retired Vice President, Human Resources
Travelers Property Casualty Company
“Seventeen years ago I completed the Motivated Abilities program (SIMA) with Steve Darter. It provided me with some very interesting ‘sign posts' to watch for in my corporate activities and since then, I've been struck by the accuracy of the programs conclusions”
David C Tiemeier, Ph.D
Vice President, Pharmaceutical Leasing
Searle, A Monsanto Company
“This book teaches us how to understand and use our personal motivations to manage our careers and the careers of the people we manage. The insights are immediately applicable.”
Jerry Gotthainer
President
Ascendia Health
“If you have ever questioned how some employees seem to fit so magically with their job, while other people are always at odds with theirs, Managing Yourself, Managing Others is a must read."
Alyce Gould
Director of Education and Development
New Britain General Hospital
Former Associate Dean, School of Management
Hartford Graduate Center
“In the years since I went through the SIMA process, I've found it extremely valuable in dealing with people whom I have come in contact with. It has also proved to underscore for me what types of working environments are best suited for me.”
William G. Holbrook
Former Executive Director
Association for Manufacturing Excellence
“ I have seen the results of SIMA and People Management's consulting in two organizations where I serve as a board member. For hard leadership choices SIMA has given critical insights.”
James Bere
President
Alta Resources
“I found the results of my SIMA assessment very helpful. We have used SIMA and People Management extensively to assure job fit and performance at the senior levels.”
Richard Stearns
President
World Vision United States
“I have been an advocate for SIMA and People Management for the last nine years, as CEO of two health care organizations. SIMA provides a view of how individuals will actually do the work. Its accuracy and predictive descriptions is almost uncanny.”
Richard Norling
Chief Executive Officer
Premier
“The SIMA process is the most detailed and in depth assessment I have discovered."
Robert Andringa
President
Council of Christian Colleges and Universities
"What Steve Darter is telling you about in this book is arguably the best instrument available to you to understand the dynamics of people and jobs"
Drew Blanchard
Former General Manager
McDonnell Douglas Aerospace Information Services
Currently a Principal with Computer Sciences Corporation
About the Author
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Steven M. Darter is President of People Management Northeast.Prior to joining People Management, Steve was on the staff and faculty at Saint Joseph College (CT) where he was the Director of the Career Planning and Placement Office and taught the career counseling sequence in the graduate counseling program. He also worked in insurance sales and held management positions in retailing before attending graduate school.
Steve started his consulting career with People Management in 1976. In 1984 he was appointed Senior Vice President and head of executive search and selection, in 1990 President of PMI Northeast, and from 1996-1999, served as the first Chairman of People Management International, L.L.C. (PMI's partnership organization). He has an M.S. in Education and an Ed.S. in Counseling and Personnel from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany. His B.S. is in Sociology from SUNY at Oswego.
Steve has been a guest speaker/facilitator at seminars, appeared on radio talk shows, authored several articles, served as Vice Chairman of the Greater Hartford Chamber of Commerce's Technology Council and has been profiled as one of North America's top executive recruiters in the book, The New Career Makers, based upon survey results of CEOs, senior HR executives, and other business leaders.
Steve specializes in executive search, selection, succession, executive development, and consultation on issues related to “job fit” and the effective utilization of employee strengths.
People Management was founded in 1961 and has offices and affiliations in twenty-eight locations throughout the world. For close to forty years, PMI has focused its business applications on “job fit” - helping organizations to improve results through a better understanding and positioning of people and helping people to make good decisions about work.
Managing Yourself Managing Others,Steven M. Darter,Publishing Directions,1928782256,Business / Economics / Finance,Business/Economics,Human Resources & Personnel Management,Leadership,Personal Growth - Success,Self-Help,Self-actualization (Psychology
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