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The Leadership Pill: The Missing Ingredient in Motivating People Today (Hardcover)
by Ken Blanchard, Marc Muchnick
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Leadership, Management, Motivation, Engagement |
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Author: Ken Blanchard, Marc Muchnick
Publisher: Free Press
Pub. in: September, 2003
ISBN: ISBN-13: 978-0743250016
Pages: 112
Measurements: 8.9 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA01626
Other information: ISBN-13: 978-0743250016
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Another practical book from the author of the well-known The One-Minute Manager. |
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The Leadership Pill is a easy and great read, and gives great tips to motivating people. It tells us that "Leadership Is Not Something You Do to People, It's Something You Do with Them."
Integrity: - Leading with integrity means being the person you want others to be. - Trust is what happens when values and behaviors match up. - People are more apt to trust and respect you when what you say and what you do are one and the same.
Partnership: - The key to effective leadership is the relationship you build with your team. - Sharing the big picture puts everyone on the same page. - It is easier to get up the hill when you climb it together.
Affirmation: - Praise is the easiest way to let people know they are appreciated. - Each of us has the power to recognize the goodness in others. - You will go a lot further if you stop to refuel.
Perfecting the blend: - People will think for themselves when you quit doing it for them. - Leadership is the process of getting everyone to the place they are suppose to go. - The highest achievement as a leader is winning the respect and trust of your team.
(From quoting Gerald Khoo, Singapore)
Target readers:
All managers should read this book.
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Ken Blanchard is chief spiritual officer and chairman of the board of The Ken Blanchard Companies, a worldwide training and development firm. He is the author of a dozen bestselling books - including the blockbuster international bestseller The One Minute Manager and the giant business bestsellers Whale Done!, Raving Fans, and Gung Ho! - which have combined sales of more than thirteen million copies in more than twenty-five languages. Few people have had a more positive and lasting impact on the day-to-day management of people and companies than Ken Blanchard. He and his wife Margie live in San Diego and work with their son Scott, daughter Debbie, and her husband Humberto Medina.
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From Publisher
Now can you become a more successful manager, a stronger team leader, and a motivator who gets the best results from a group? Ken Blanchard and Marc Muchnick's The Leadership Pill provides the answer. In the bestselling tradition of Whale Done! and The One Minute Manager, their entertaining and inspiring new book is a parable about the competition between two leaders with totally different management styles - a story that reveals the ingredients of truly effective leadership.
Consider this tantalizing possibility: What if there were a pill that could actually stimulate the natural powers of the mind and body to provide leadership? In the story, an amazing new pill heightens one leader's powers, but contains the wrong ingredients, stimulating him in an obsessive and shortsighted direction with disastrous results. In contrast, the Effective Leader, working without a pill, proclaims that "only through sustainability can our teams remain motivated and successful." An inspiring and supportive leader, he supplies the right ingredients, earning his team's respect and trust with a blend of integrity, partnership, and affirmation. The hard-won result is a highly motivated team producing consistent top performance and genuine success. Ultimately it is recognized that "leadership for a lifetime" is much easier to digest than a pill for leaders looking for a quick fix.
Destined to be a transforming experience for countless readers, The Leadership Pill shows business managers at any level how to apply the right techniques for getting both results and the commitment of their people, even when the pressure to perform is high.
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The Discovery
One sunny day in Corporate America, Leadership Pill Industries (LPI) opened their first production facility with an announcement that received immediate national media coverage: "We can compress all of the attributes of effective leadership into a single pill."
Years of research and pilot studies had finally paid off. The company appropriately named their groundbreaking product the Leadership Pill and made plans to mass-market it across the land.
The Leadership Pill was viewed by the press as an especially stunning innovation. After lamenting the shortage of talented leaders in business, politics, and other organizational circles, the media clamored for more information.
"Industry survey data readily supports the launch of the Leadership Pill," the LPI spokesperson reported.
In an effort to further define the market for their new product, Leadership Pill Industries hired an independent agency to conduct a series of focus groups to explore various important questions. One question in particular evoked the liveliest response from most participants: "Of all the leaders you have met, how many of them do you consider to be truly great leaders?"
"The focus group data is compelling," LPI reported to the media upon receiving and analyzing the results. "CEOs and vice presidents across the board are concerned with the lack of leadership depth within their ranks, especially at the middle management level. Only a few front-line supervisors and employees recall feeling like they have ever worked for a truly great leader."
Case studies conducted by industrial psychologists at a national leadership think tank also substantiated these findings.
"The majority of business, government, and nonprofit organizations are stuck in a perpetual leadership crisis," the agency's white paper revealed. "On top of this, stress and job insecurity continue to pervade the business landscape. There are no signs that the situation is likely to change going forward."
Mounting anticipation of the Leadership Pill's arrival set off a wave of excitement. Company boardrooms bustled with anticipation. Employees speculated at the watercooler. No one could believe it - leadership in a pill!
"But can the Leadership Pill rid the world of micromanagers and overbearing executives?" many asked. "Is there truly hope that leaders might actually do what they say?"
It was a delightfully tempting proposition, they reasoned.
While support for the Leadership Pill was tremendous, one prominent and well-regarded figure in organizational leadership - aptly known as the Effective Leader based on his proven abilities over the years - raised a strong note of caution.
"If they don't have the right blend of leadership ingredients, the Leadership Pill will do more damage than good," the Effective Leader stated in a talk-show interview. |
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Publishers Weekly (MSL quote), USA
<2009-01-02 00:00>
Blanchard is a veritable self-help book writing machine. His latest-a typically slim volume offering a typically simple parable-concerns a competition between two leaders with wildly different management styles. One leader takes "the leadership pill," which gives him "all the attributes of effective leadership." The other leader does not take the medication. Although the book is presumably not an advertisement for natural healing, it seems that way at times: it turns out the leader who doesn't take the pill winds up winning the competition. The message? Leadership takes time-it can't be learned overnight (or ingested via pill form). Leaders must show integrity, build "a culture of partnership" and affirm their employees' sense of self-worth by letting them know what they do is important. It's a solid, though obvious, message that should resonate with fans of Blanchard's brand of advice. |
Mary Anne Brannon Technical Operations, Development & Learning, Delta Airlines, USA
<2009-01-02 00:00>
What an easy-to-understand approach to building positive and productive relationships... both professionally and personally. It's about doing the right thing at the right time for the right reasons. When people understand their respective roles in the business, the results are more than just the dollar. The lessons of The Leadership Pill could make a "new course" for Delta. |
Dan T. CathyPresident and COO, Chick-fil-A, Inc., USA
<2009-01-02 00:00>
The one-minute doctor has done it again with partner Marc Muchnick by prescribing a Rx labeled The Leadership Pill that when taken as directed is sure to lead to greater organizational healthiness.
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Marcus Buckingham, Coauthor of First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths, USA
<2009-01-02 00:00>
The Leadership Pill is as instructive as it is entertaining, with a positive message that can truly help managers at any level to develop effective leadership. |
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