58 of 59 customers found the following review helpful:
 Leadership and One Minute Manager - Good Read!, 2001-10-04
I prefer this book to the One Minute Manger because it has the same basic concepts but deals with situational leadership, which is what most managers truly face. There are three simple precepts, which the One Minute Manager establishes with his employees: One Minute Goal Setting, One Minute Praisings, and One Minute Reprimands (just as in the original One Minute Manager).1. Starting with goals that are clear to both the manager and the people who will help accomplish them. Goal setting is all about making sure employees understand perfectly what their duties are, what is expected of them and that there are no surprises. 2. The manager should work with his/her people to diagnose their "competence" and "commitment" to accomplish those goals. 3. Decide what management style is most appropriate for the individual 4. Following through and provide reprimands or praisings based on that adopted style. The Praisings and Reprimands are simply managers acknowledging that the employees are doing there jobs or not and how to deal with the situation and how to convey it to the employee. As always, I was quite stunned to find the content extremely useful and extremely simplistic. For those seeking to find additional leadership books I recommend How to Become CEO by Jeffrey Fox and two books by John Maxwell, Power of Leadership and The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader.
37 of 37 customers found the following review helpful:
The Best of the "One Minute Manager" Series, 2001-07-28
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.
16 of 17 customers found the following review helpful:
 Practical Leadership Style, 2001-02-26
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.
4 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
Excellent! It's like "Management in a snapshot", 2000-09-18
Everbody allways agree on the lack of people management skills received in any college/executive education. In fact, managing people is like being a father.. nobody tells you how, you have to learn by experience.. But, with this book, you really get the point straight about managing people and being a real leader. I really recommend its reading and its inmediate application.
5 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
This book is a MUST for new Managers... and for old ones, 2000-07-05
This is a step by step journey from Management to Situational Leadership. You will read it again and again as you move forward in your career and face new challenges with new teams, new direct reports and new bosses. This is also an excellent present for some one that is facing a management position for the first time.
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