Leadership and the One Minute Manager : Increasing Effectiveness Through Situational Leadership
Author: Ken Blanchard, Patricia Zigarmi
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ISBN: 0688039693
Publisher: William Morrow (06 October, 1999)
Sales Rank: 1,544
Average Customer Rating: 4.41 out of 5
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Rating: 5 out of 5
The Best of the "One Minute Manager" Series
Don't let the title or the number of pages fool you. This small volume packs substance. Situational management was not a fad. As recently as 1999, Peter Drucker (in his book "Management Challengers for the 21st Century") emphasized that despite the apparent hunger for learning "the one best way to manage, one such method does not exist." Producing desirable results is the goal of management; how to manage varies tremendously according to differences in situations.This book goes well beyond espousing the idea of "different strokes for different folks." Becoming a situational leader involves:
1. Starting with goals that are clear to both the manager and the people who will help accomplish them.
2. Working with her people to diagnose their "competence" and "commitment" to accomplish those goals. Diagnosis preceds effective management methods.
3. Contracting with each person on each of the tasks and jointly deciding which leadership style will likely be most effective.
4. Following through to provide the agreed-upon leadership style until either (i) enough progress or (ii) lack of suitable progress warrants a change in leadership style.
The book presents a practical model for diagnosing each person's level of development with regard to achieving each major goal.
One other note: Despite its "leadership" title, the book addresses one-on-one supervision methods. If you're looking for a book that addresses how to create and sustain a "vision" that will drive your organization forward, this is not that book. It is, however, the most practical presentation of situational management that I've read.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Practical Leadership Style
Leadership is the key trait of any manager to handle the business of managing. Lots of theories were proposed and lot of literature has been produced on leadership styles. Here is a refreshing and down to earth proposal of situational leadership. It is a synthesis of major leadership styles already proposed. Use right leadership style with right people - different strokes to different people is the key proposal of this book. This book also proposes evolutionary nature of people at work and thus change of leadership style with the same person at different situations and evolutionary levels. The proposal of not treating unequals as equals for any reason is very sound and practical and thus makes this theory adoptable in any situation. Written in simple but very clear style, this book is a must read for everybody - whether in the business of managing or not because it can be adopted to any basic human interaction for getting right responses. It is of great help anyway for those people who are in the business of managing.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Optimize your leadership skills
This book shows you how to becoming a situational leader by:1. Crystallizing goals that are clear to both the manager and the people involved.
2. Participating together to examine "competence" and "commitment" to accomplish those goals.
3. Contracting with each employee about the tasks at hand and jointly agreeing which leadership style will likely be most effective. This is Optimal Thinking, the mental software needed to optimize performance.
4. Following through to provide the agreed-upon leadership style until feedback suggests another option.
The book provides a realistic roadmap for diagnosing each employee's status in relation to important goals.
This book provides a practical roadmap for the leader. Read it and read Optimal Thinking: How to Be Your Best Self to learn how to optimize your thinking, be your best, bring out the best in others and create the best results. This is a 10-star combination!
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