Leadership and the One Minute Manager Updated Ed: Increasing Effectiveness Through Situational Leadership II
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This updated edition of management guru Ken Blanchard’s classic work Leadership and the One Minute Manager® teaches leaders the world renowned method of developing self-reliance in those they manage: Situational Leadership® II.
From Leadership and the One Minute Manager® you’ll learn why tailoring management styles to individual employees is so important; why knowing when to delegate, support, or direct is critical; and how to identify the leadership style suited to a particular person.
By consistently using Situational Leadership® II’s proven model and powerful techniques, leaders can develop and retain competent, committed employees. This remarkable, easy-to-follow book is a priceless guide to personalized leadership that elicits the best performance from your staff—and the best bottom line for any business.
Ken Blanchard
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.
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Leadership and the One Minute Manager Updated Ed - Ken Blanchard
Contents
The Symbol
Introduction
A Visit from an Entrepreneur
Being Successful
Thinking Differently About Leadership
Different Strokes for Different Folks
Leadership Style: Perceptions of Others
Three Skills of an SLII® Leader
Managing the Performance of Others
Goal Setting
Diagnosing Development Level
Leadership Style Flexibility
The Four Basic Leadership Styles
Matching Leadership Style to Development Level
Think Before You Act
Different Strokes for the Same Folks
Developing Competence and Commitment
Turning Around Performance Problems
Sharing What You’re Doing
Understanding the Six Conversations
Positive Assumptions About People
Becoming an SLII® Leader
Acknowledgments
Excerpt from The New One Minute Manager
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
About the Authors
Services Available
Also by Ken Blanchard
Copyright
About the Publisher
The Symbol
The One Minute Manager’s symbol—a one-minute readout from the face of a digital watch—is intended to remind each of us to take a minute out of our day to look into the faces of the people we lead. And to realize that they are our most importance resource.
Introduction
In the early 1980s my coauthors, Pat and Drea Zigarmi, and I, together with the other founding associates of The Ken Blanchard Companies, made a number of changes to the original Situational Leadership®* model that I developed with Paul Hersey in the late 1960s.
The changes reflected our own experience, the ideas managers shared with us, and the findings of research we’d been conducting. The result was a new leadership model, which we call SLII®.
The SLII® approach to leading and developing people is practical, easy to understand, and easy to apply. It has been taught over the last forty years to leaders at all levels of most Fortune 1000 companies, as well as to leaders in fast-growing entrepreneurial organizations throughout the world.
This new, updated edition of Leadership and the One Minute Manager reflects our latest thinking about SLII®. Written as a parable, it tells the story of an overworked entrepreneur who learns from the One Minute Manager how to get the most out of a diverse team by becoming an SLII® leader.
Pat, Drea, and I hope this will be a book you will read and reread until being an SLII® leader becomes second nature to you in your leadership roles at work, in your home, and in the community.
—KEN BLANCHARD, coauthor of The One Minute Manager® and Leading at a Higher Level
*Situational Leadership® is a registered trademark of Leadership Studies, Inc., dba The Center for Leadership Studies.
A Visit from an Entrepreneur
THE One Minute Manager got a call one day from a woman who said she was an entrepreneur. He was glad to hear from her, because he always enjoyed talking to people who had the courage to start their own businesses.
The entrepreneur explained that she was having a hard time finding people who were willing to work as hard as she was.
I feel I have to do everything myself. I can’t count on anyone to take on some of the things that need to be done,
said the entrepreneur.
What you have to do,
said the One Minute Manager, is learn to delegate.
But my people are not ready,
said the entrepreneur.
Then you need to train them,
said the One Minute Manager.
But I don’t have time,
said the entrepreneur.
If that’s the case,
said the One Minute Manager with a grin, you do have a problem. Why don’t you come over this afternoon and we’ll have a talk.
Being Successful
WHEN the entrepreneur arrived at the One Minute Manager’s office that afternoon, she found him talking to his assistant at her desk.
I appreciate your willingness to meet with me,
said the entrepreneur as she joined the One Minute Manager in his office.
It’s my pleasure,
said the One Minute Manager. I’ve heard that you have been very successful in a number of ventures. What do you think it takes to be successful?
It’s really quite easy,
the entrepreneur said with a smile. All you have to do is work half a day. You can work either the first twelve hours or the second twelve hours.
After he’d had a good laugh, the One Minute Manager said, While I think the amount of time and effort you put into work is important, I’m afraid too many people think there is a direct relationship between the amount of work they do and success—the more time they put in, the more successful they will be.
I thought you would say that,
said the entrepreneur. "In fact, I understand one of your favorite quotes is:
*
Don’t
Work
Harder—
Work
Smarter
*
Absolutely,
said the One Minute Manager. But before talking about my thoughts on working smarter, let me ask you one more question.
Ask away,
said the entrepreneur.
You call yourself an entrepreneur,
said the One Minute Manager. "What does that mean to
you?"
The entrepreneur smiled and said, "A friend of mine described beautifully what it means to be an entrepreneur. He told me he once took his senior vice president to the top of a hill that overlooked the city. It was a beautiful view.
"He said to his vice president, ‘Do you see that ridge down there? Wouldn’t that be a great place to build a house?’
"‘It sure would be,’ said his vice president.
"‘Can you imagine a pool over to the right? Wouldn’t that be something?’ continued my friend.
"‘Just tremendous,’ said the vice president.
"‘How about a tennis court to the left?’ said my friend.
"‘What a setting,’ said the vice president.
‘Let me tell you one thing,’ said my friend. ‘If you continue to work as hard as you have and accomplish all the goals we have set, I guarantee that someday—someday, all of that will be mine.’
That’s funny,
said the One Minute Manager with a big smile on his face. But I think that story illustrates some of your problems with managing and motivating others.
What do you mean?
asked the entrepreneur.
Thinking Differently About Leadership
"LET me explain it this way, said the One Minute Manager.
I would imagine your organization looks like a pyramid with you, as the CEO, at the top and all your individual contributors at the bottom. In between are several levels of management."
That’s the way it’s organized,
said the entrepreneur. Is there something wrong with a pyramidal organization?
No,
said the One Minute Manager. There is nothing wrong with it as an organizational chart. The trouble comes when you think and operate with a traditional top-down philosophy.
I don’t think I follow you,
said the entrepreneur.
When you think with a top-down pyramid philosophy,
said the One Minute Manager, "the assumption is that everyone works for the person above them on the organizational ladder. As a result, managers are thought to be ‘responsible’ for planning, organizing, and evaluating everything that happens in the organization, while their people are supposed to be ‘responsive to the directives of management.’ That’s why people like you end up thinking managers do