Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager Revised Edition: Gain the Mindset and Skillset for Getting What You Need to Succeed – Mastering Personal Responsibility for Power and Freedom - Hardcover

Blanchard, Ken; Fowler, Susan; Hawkins, Laurence

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062698672 ISBN 13: 9780062698674

Verlag: William Morrow, 2017

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The co-author of the phenomenal New York Times bestselling classic The One Minute Manager® explores the skills needed to become an effective self leader in this essential work, now updated throughout.

Just as Ken Blanchard’s phenomenal bestselling classic The One Minute Manager gives leaders the three secrets to managing others, so this follow-up book gives people the three secrets to managing themselves. In Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager, readers will learn that accepting personal responsibility for their own success leads to power, freedom, and autonomy.

Through a captivating business parable, Ken Blanchard and coauthors Susan Fowler and Laurence Hawkins show readers how to apply the world-renowned Situational Leadership® II method to their own development. The story centers on Steve, a young advertising executive who is about to lose his job. Through a series of talks with a One Minute Manager protégé named Cayla, Steve learns the three secrets of self leadership. His newfound skills not only empower Steve to keep his job, but also show him how to ditch his victim mentality to continue growing, learning, and achieving.

For decades, millions of managers in Fortune 500 companies and small businesses around the world have followed Ken Blanchard’s management methods to increase productivity, job satisfaction, and personal prosperity. Now, this newly revised edition of Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager empowers people at every level of the organization to achieve success.

The path to success isn’t about waiting to be led—it’s about learning to lead yourself.

• Empowerment in the Workplace: Learn how to stop waiting for others to empower you and start creating your own power, freedom, and autonomy―even when you’re not in charge.
• Situational Leadership® II for Yourself: Discover how to diagnose your own development level on any task and get the specific direction and support you need to master new skills and reach your goals.
• Overcoming Assumed Constraints: Challenge the self-limiting beliefs that hold you back, just as Steve, the book’s protagonist, learns to move from a victim mentality to a proactive mindset.
• A Captivating Business Parable: Follow a simple, engaging story that makes complex management and leadership skills easy to understand, remember, and apply immediately.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Ken Blanchard, PhD, is one of the most influential leadership experts in the world. He has co-authored 60 books, including Raving Fans and Gung Ho! (with Sheldon Bowles). His groundbreaking works have been translated into over 40 languages and their combined sales total more than 21 million copies. In 2005 he was inducted into Amazon's Hall of Fame as one of the top 25 bestselling authors of all time. The recipient of numerous leadership awards and honors, he is cofounder with his wife, Margie, of The Ken Blanchard Companies®, a leading international training and consulting firm.

Susan Fowler is one of the world's foremost experts on personal empowerment and has spoken on the subject in all fifty of the United States and more than twenty foreign countries. With Ken Blanchard and Laurence Hawkins she created -- and is the lead developer of -- Situational Self Leadership;®, which focuses on empowerment and taking the initiative when you're not in charge. She is an adjunct professor for the University of San Diego's masters of science in executive leadership program.

Laurence Hawkins is an internationally renowned management consultant, motivational speaker, and -- with Ken Blanchard and Susan Fowler -- the coauthor of the Situational Self Leadership program. Hawkins received his bachelor's degree in American history and literature from Williams College and his master's and doctoral degrees in leadership and organizational behavior from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: William Morrow
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0062698672
• ISBN 13: 9780062698674
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
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