Management Ebooks: "Helping People Win at Work"

Ken Blanchard’s Leading at a Higher Level techniques are inspiring thousands of leaders to build high-performing organizations that make life better for everyone. Now, Blanchard and WD-40 Company leader Garry Ridge reveal how WD-40 has used Blanchard’s techniques of Partnering for Performance with every employee--achieving levels of engagement and commitment that have fortified the bottom line.

Ridge introduces WD-40 Company’s year-round performance review system, explaining its goals, features, and the cultural changes it requires. Next, he shares his leadership point of view: what he expects of people, what they can expect of him, and where his beliefs about leadership and motivation come from. Finally, Ken Blanchard explains why WD-40 Company’s Partnering for Performance system works so well--and how to leverage its high-value techniques in your organization.

“I’m thrilled that the first book in our Leading at a Higher Level series is with Garry Ridge, president of WD-40 Company. For years I’ve been concerned about how people’s performance is evaluated. People are often forced into a normal distribution curve, or even worse, rank ordered. Not only does this not build trust, it also does not hold managers responsible for coaching people and helping them win. The manager’s responsibility is focused on sorting people out.

When I was a college professor, I always gave my students the final exam at the beginning of the course and spent the rest of the semester helping them answer the questions so that they could get an A. Life is all about getting As, not some stupid normal distribution curve. Garry Ridge got this, and wow! What a difference it has made in WD-40 Company’s performance.” --Ken Blanchard

“When I first heard Ken talk about giving his final exam at the beginning of the course and then teaching students the answers so they could get an A, it blew me away. Why don’t we do that in business? So that’s exactly what I did at WD-40 Company when we set up our ‘Don’t Mark My Paper, Help Me Get an A’ performance management system. Has it made a difference? You’d better believe it. Ever since we began the system, our company’s annual sales have more than tripled, from $100 million to more than $339 million. And we’ve accomplished this feat while making the company a great place to work.” --Garry Ridge

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Management Ebooks: "The One Minute Manager"

For more than twenty years, millions of managers in Fortune 500 companies and small businesses nationwide have followed The One Minute Manager's techniques, thus increasing their productivity, job satisfaction, and personal prosperity. These very real results were achieved through learning the management techniques that spell profitability for the organization and its employees.

The One Minute Manager is a concise, easily read story that reveals three very practical secrets: One Minute Goals, One Minute Praisings, and One Minute Reprimands.

The book also presents several studies in medicine and the behavioral sciences that clearly explain why these apparently simple methods work so well with so many people. By the book's end you will know how to apply them to your own situation and enjoy the benefits.

That's why The One Minute Manager has continued to appear on business bestseller lists for more than two decades, and has become an international sensation.

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Management Ebooks: "Who Killed Change"

Who Killed Change?

Solving the Mystery of Leading People Through Change

Every day organizations around the world launch change initiatives—often big, expensive ones—designed to improve the status quo. Yet 50 to 70 percent of these change efforts fail. A few perish suddenly, but many die painful, protracted deaths that drain the organization's resources, energy and morale.

Who or What Is Killing Change?

That's what you'll find out in this witty whodunit. The story features a Columbo-style detective, Agent Mike McNally, who's investigating the murder of yet another change. One by one, Agent McNally interviews thirteen prime suspects, including a myopic leader named Victoria Vision; a chronically tardy manager named Ernest Urgency; an executive named Clair Communication, whose laryngitis makes communication all but impossible; and several other dubious characters.

The suspects are sure to sound familiar and you're bound to relate them to your own workplace. In the end, Agent McNally solves the case in a way that will inspire you to become an effective Change Agent in your own organization. A step-by-step guide at the back of the book shows you how to apply the story's lessons to the real world. Key questions help you evaluate the health of your organization's change initiatives, and you'll learn best practices for enabling and sustaining the desired change.

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Management Ebooks: "Gung Ho!"

El Gung Ho es una tecnica de gestión eficiente para “aprovechar al máximo el potencial de las personas en una empresa” y consiste en alcanzar un estado en el cual el trabajo de los individuos es importante en donde este ejerce control sobre su trabajo y en donde prevalece el trabajar juntos.

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Management Ebooks: "Bien Hecho"

En una historia muy amena, donde nos muestran con gran claridad las técnicas y los fundamentos para conseguir encontrar lo mejor de cada uno. Focalizando nuestra energía sobre los resultados positivos y redirigiendo las acciones que han llevado al error o al fracaso. Seguimos a Wes Kingsley, un alto ejecutivo de una empresa y padre de familia, a quien las cosas no le van demasiado bien en ningún ámbito de su estresada vida. Conversando con el jefe de los entrenadores del espectáculo de orcas del Sea World, Wes aprenderá unas técnicas sencillas para construir confianza, acentuando lo positivo y rediccionando el comportamiento negativo.

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Management Ebooks: Ken Blanchard "The One Minute Entrepreneur"

In The One Minute Entrepreneur, Ken Blanchard (coauthor of the #1 bestselling business classic The One Minute Manager), Don Hutson, CEO of U.S. Learning, and Ethan Willis, CEO of Prosper Learning, tell the inspiring story of one man’s challenges in creating his own business. Through a powerful and engaging narrative, we confront many of the typical problems all entrepreneurs face in starting up their business, from finding new sources of revenue to securing the commitment of their people and the loyalty of their customers.

More important, we learn the secrets to becoming a successful entrepreneur, including how to build a firm foundation, how to ensure a steady cash flow, and how to create legendary service. In addition, the book offers invaluable advice, delivered through One Minute Insights, from such entrepreneurs and thinkers as Sheldon Bowles, Peter Drucker, Michael Gerber, and Charlie “Tremendous” Jones.

Today, in the midst of the largest entrepreneurial surge in U.S. history, four out of five small businesses continue to fail. The One Minute Entrepreneur offers businesspeople and would-be entrepreneurs a treasure trove of wisdom on how to think, act, and succeed in creating and sustaining a business, no matter what their industry.

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Management Ebooks: Ken Blanchard "Leading at a Higher Level"

Generalmente se considera que el objetivo primordial de un líder consiste en procurar que la organización consiga unos indicadores financieros satisfactorios. Esto es cierto cuando se trata simplemente de liderar.

Pero en lo que al liderazgo de nivel superior se refiere, no basta con los indicadores financieros; también es importante fomentar el bienestar de todos los miembros de la organización. Sólo así se logra que esta última consiga un rendimiento sin igual.

En este texto, el autor presenta su visión definitiva sobre la excelencia en liderazgo. Entre los temas tratados están: visión y meta correctas, cómo tratar a los empleados y liderazgo servicial, entre otros.

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Gurús del Management: Ken Blanchard

Es un prominente conferenciante, consultor y escritor. Ha escrito libros de gran éxito , entre los cuales se destacan The One Minute Manager, Gung Ho, Whale Done!, Raving Fans y Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute. En total ha vendido más de 13 millones de copias de sus libros, publicados en más de 25 idiomas.

Pocas personas han creado un impacto tan positivo en la gestión cotidiana de la gente y de las compañías como Ken Blanchard. Sus amigos, colegas y clientes lo caracterizan como uno de los más incisivos, comprensivos y perspicaces teóricos de la comunicación del mundo contemporáneo.

Como escritor ha llegado mucho más allá, incluso, que como conferenciante internacional. Su fenómeno, The One Minute Manager, escrito en coautoría con Spencer Johnson, ha vendido más de 9 millones de ejemplares.

Ken es presidente y director espiritual —así se llama su cargo— de The Ken Blanchard Companies y profesor visitante de su alma mater, Cornell University, donde obtuvo su título en gobierno y filosofía y su doctorado en administración educativa y liderazgo, y de donde hoy es síndico emérito. Obtuvo una maestría en sociología en la Colgate University. Sus muchos premios por sus contribuciones en el campo de la administración y el liderazgo incluyen:

• El premio a la excelencia del Council of Peers de la National Speakers Association en 1991
• El Martillo de oro de Toastmaster International en 1992
• La inclusión en el Hall de la Fama de la revista Training en la Conferencia de Lakewood sobre desarrollo de recursos humanos (HRD) en 1992
• El premio por su contribución distinguida al desarrollo de los recursos humanos de la American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) en 1996

Management Ebooks: "El Ejecutivo Al Minuto "

Este libro es uno de los mas brillantes de la extraordinaria coleccion del Ejecutivo al Minuto, enseña a los hombres de empresa una leccion inolvidable: Cómo encontrar tiempo para llevar a cabo todo aquello que ellos mismos quieren y necesitan hacer.

Los autores explican como los jefes se hacen cargo de todos aquellos problemas que el personal les presentan, terminan irremediablemente atascados en cuellos de botella.

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