The Big Idea
Ignited addresses the issues of the real-world mid-level managers stuck between the needs of the corporation, the team, the colleagues, and the customers. The book highlights three important values for any manager and shows how you can attain them: more power, more purpose and more success.

By focusing on these three values, the book promises to teach how to:

Lead in a limited space
Know your network enough to expand it and your influence
Manage time, powerlessness and negativity in the workplace and outside
Implement strategic change in your company and industry
Help you achieve your purpose
Accomplish goals you’re uniquely positioned to achieve
Master new roles in the center of your organization
Connect your personal passions with the goals of the company
Sell your vision and the projects you feel most passionate about
Live your best life, not just the company’s


Vince Thompson is on a mission to make the manager's life more meaningful. A career manager himself... Vince has lead teams in restaurants, television stations and Internet companies. At AOL, where Vince worked for seven years, he built the companies Media training organization and lead AOL's advertising sales efforts in the Southwest as their Regional Vice President.
Today Vince is the principal at Middleshift, a consulting company focused on creating revenue for Internet companies by empowering those in the middle and super-serving customers. His clients include Break.com, StarStyle.com and Napster.