a different definition of consistency

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	• Leadership and the One Minute Manager: Increasing Effectiveness Through Situational Leadership Ken Blanchard, Patricia Zigarmi, ... William Morrow, 1985 - 112 pages average customer review:based on 30 reviews view larger image
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Leadership

4 Stars.

Leadership and the One Minute manager, by Ken Blanchard, Patricia Zigarmi, and Drea Zigarmi, is a great book on leadership methods. In particular, Blanchard's "Situational Leadership 2"(tm) model is an outstanding description of effective leadership approaches. The idea that your approach to leadership should depend not only on the individual(s) you're leading, but also on the context (i.e. - the situation) of leadership is sadly overlooked by many other theories/philosophies on leadership.

Admittedly, Blanchard's parable style approach to the matter is a little hokey, and some of the dialogue is contrived. Nonetheless, this book sends a message that many of today's leaders and managers would do well to pay attention to.

Also recomended are Blanchard's other One Minute Manager books, particularly:

- The One Minute Manager, with Spencer Johnson, and

- The One Minute Manager Builds High Performance Teams, with Donald Carew and Eunice Parisi Carew.

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By Far My Favorite

This is by far my favorite Blanchard book. Situational Leadership is now MY leadership style!

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Leadership - developed, not appointed

Very good book for any one that supervises or directs employees. Primarily for a manager with salaried employees, but applicable for first line supervisor of hourly.

This book examines different levels of ability, and the different responses required to deal with different conduct/performances.

a different definition of consistency

This entry in Ken Blanchard's One Minute Manager Library uses the narrative style that has for better or worse become standard in business literature to teach `situational leadership' in terms of flexibility, diagnosis, and partnering.

Blanchard's style tends toward the simple rather than the complicated side of the leadership menu and so his popular books are short and broken into bite-sized chapters, usually based upon one of his trademark sayings.

The `situational' in `situational leadership' means that Blanchard wants to coach a leader who can vary his style based upon the situation he encounters. The idea is not to produce an automaton of managerial efficiency, but rather a human being who is wise. This latter aspect of his program may have increased in recent years. The book under review dates from 1985, but wisdom under other names is already a desirable feature, even if it emerges at this early date more as a technical ability than a character virtue.

I find this little entry to be a refreshing reminder to step back and understand the human being whom one is `managing' when much of my leadership reading focuses--properly, I think--on the person of the leader. Blanchard reminds us between the lines of Leadership and the One Minute Manager that we manage human beings and that we do so for some reason larger than ourselves. Their competence and attitude vary from week to week and from task and so, therefore, should our managerial interaction with them.

That alone is worth the read.

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A Must Read - Situational Leadership

Leadership and the One Minute Manager: Increasing Effectiveness Through Situational Leadership by Ken Blanchard and company takes the classic "One Minute Manager" to the next level. The key difference is that Leadership and the One Minute Manager provides you with a scalable system to assess your team members skills, agree on the terms of success and the steps to success and then agree on a system for accountability. I have found it to be one of the most powerful tools to run my business.

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