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Leadership
and the One Minute Manager
By
Patricia
Zigarmi, Drea Zigarmi, Ken Blanchard
HarperBusiness, 2002 - Paperback
I prefer this book to the One
Minute Manager 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.
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