With Making Perfect, American Teri Lindeberg, Founder and CEO of one of Russia's most successful recruitment firms, brings us into her office like a fly on the wall, as we listen to her perform structured one-on-one interviews with each of her employees. We learn the thoughts, issues and ideas of her staff and management towards all aspects of the company and their careers there, and how Teri Lindeberg as owner and CEO feels about what they are telling her. The Author also provides a highly useful business tool throughout the chapters; summarizing what employees at all companies want from their employers, for readers to check against their own current working conditions. The book concludes with an inspiring summary detailing what the CEO learned from the experience, what improvements she made to the company and what outcome those decisions made on her business. Making Perfect is a book for anyone who works in a company, at every occupational level, anywhere around the World. The story takes place in Russia, but as the reader quickly finds out, workplace issues are the same for people almost everywhere. What do employees want? What does a CEO think? Making Perfect answers these questions in the most honest and straightforward way as the verbatim discussions are documented and the resulting actions and plans are revealed. Written in a very easy, conversational reading style and format, with usable ideas on every page, Making Perfect's content makes the reader think about their own work experiences and prompts a desire to improve both themselves, and the company they work for. Making Perfect is a modern day case study on the importance and resulting benefits and successes of employee engagement.
About the Author: Teri Lindeberg is the founder and CEO of Staffwell, a Russia-based recruitment and executive search firm specialized in placing top management and professionals with their client base of Russian and Western companies. In addition, Staffwell also provides a range of consulting and training services to companies. Prior to Staffwell, Teri worked in Moscow, London and New York, for a UK-based international recruitment company. Before relocating to Russia in 1996, she worked in recruitment and the publishing, printing and office equipment industries in New York. Teri began writing when there was a need to create marketing materials for Staffwell, during their start-up phase in 2000. Several years later, she started the company's corporate and career development magazine, The Well, where she was the editor and lead author of its articles and content. More recently, Teri was a featured blog writer for Harvard Business Review, Forbes and Finam (Russia). Making Perfect is Teri's first book. She is currently conducting research for her second book and plans to write several more business books in the future. Teri has a degree in Retail Management from Syracuse University. Outside the office, she spends quality time with her three young sons, socializes with friends, and plays, practices or coaches a number of sports including softball, baseball, broomball, tennis, Tae Kwon Do, kayaking and golf. Teri lives in Moscow, Russia and vacations at her "dacha" in the US.