From one of the world's most recognized experts on management comes a simple parable filled with insights designed to help readers manage change quickly and prevail in changing times. Written for all ages, the story takes less than an hour to read, but its unique insights can last for a lifetime.
Written in the parable style of THE ONE MINUTE MANAGER, RAVING FANS uses a brilliantly simple and charming story to teach how to define a vision, learn what a customer really wants, institute effective systems, and make Raving Fan Service a constant feature and not just another program of the month.
When a person goes to the boss with a problem and the boss agrees to do something about it, the monkey is off his back and onto the boss's. How can managers avoid these leaping monkeys? Here is priceless advice from three famous experts: how managers can meet their own priorities, give back other people's monkeys, and let them solve their own ...
Revealing how to master the principles and practice courageous, transformative dialogue, Scott shows readers how to change their lives, one conversation at a time.
Business guru Blanchard offers an approach to forming successful relationships and meaningful alliances with those around us. WHALE DONE recounts how Wes Kingsley, Blanchard's Everyman, finds new ways to bring fulfillment into his professional and private life after a trip to SeaWorld and a long talk with the chief animal trainer there.
Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes her. Celie eventually learns that her abusive husband ...
For undergraduate and graduate-level courses in Organizational Behavior, Leadership, and Organizational Development. Used by more than a million people throughout the world, this highly readable text provides a comprehensive examination of the applied behavioral sciences, and focuses on fundamental ideas which have stood the test of years of ...
The authors of "Raving Fans, Gung Ho!" and "Big Bucks!" return with another winning guide--a blueprint for successful team building in any organization. Told as a parable, "High Five!" is the story of Alan Foster, who is fired because, as his boss puts it, "Alan, we need good producers but producers who are team players". By helping with his son's ...
This book is an invaluable addition to The One Minute Manager library because "it is clear that high-performing teams are the most important business trend for the 1990s", according to Dr. Ken Blanchard and his collaborators explain the four states of development all groups move through and reveal how a manager can help any group become fully ...
Intended for adult development and ageing courses in departments of psychology, human development, nursing, social work, education, home economics and gerontology, this text offers a presentation of theory and applications. This edition reflects changing interests and research in the field of ageing. An important change is the introduction of a ...
Being a manager can be an intimidating and challenging task. Managing involves teaching new skills to employees, helping land a new customer, accomplishing an important assignment, increasing performance, and much more. The process of management can be very challenging at times, but it can also bring you a sense of fulfillment that you never ...
Starting from the assumption that people are every company's most important resource, this book sets out three simple steps to getting the best from them and making every company run more efficiently.
Arranged for people with busy schedules, "The Heart of a Leader" offers Blanchards most important insights in an accessible format. Thoroughly challenging and deeply inspiring, this classic captures the profound wisdom and valuable insight that only he delivers.
A straightforward and snappy guide to successful customer service from the author of the bestselling The One Minute Manager. Raving Fans, in a nutshell, is the advice given to a new Area Manager on his first day -- in an extraordinary business book that will help everyone, in every kind of organization or business, deliver stunning customer ...
Adapting one minute manager techniques to enable successful leadership to happen. Using different ways to motivate different kinds of people. Leadership and The One Minute Manager goes straight to the heart of management as it describes the effective, adaptive styles of Situational Leadership. In clear and simple terms it teaches how to become a ...
This book is meant to be a companion to "The One Minute Manager". The focus of this book is the application of three basic managerial skills to real life situations: one minute goal setting, one minute praisings, and one minute reprimands.
This remarkable, easy-to-follow book presents a priceless guide to creative, personalized leadership that elicits the best performance from any staff--and the best bottom line for any business.
In the follow-up to "1001 Ways to Reward Employees", Bob Nelson uses case studies, examples, techniques, research highlights and quotes from business leaders to reveal how successful companies get the best out of their employees.
The authors offer every businessperson and would-be entrepreneur a treasure trove of wisdom on how to think, act, and live passionately, no matter their industry.
This text on differential equations seeks to strike a balance between analytic, numeric and graphical techniques, emphasizes modelling, stresses qualitative theory throughout the course, uses technology, presents linear and nonlinear systems in parallel, and includes an introduction to discrete models of dynamical systems.
The bestselling author of "The One-Minute Manager" reveals the meaning of servant leadership modeled after Christ. Readers seeking to grow as leaders and business executives will find "Servant Leader" nothing short of life changing.
For many churches today, music has become one of the most important factors in attempting to reach unbelievers with the gospel. Writing from his own personal experience as a former worship leader, Dan Lucarini questions the use of contemporary music in the worship of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
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