Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager: Gain the Mindset and Skillset for Getting What You Need to Succeed (Revised): Gain the Mindset and Skillset for Getting What You Need to Succeed

Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager: Gain the Mindset and Skillset for Getting What You Need to Succeed (Revised): Gain the Mindset and Skillset for Getting What You Need to SucceedThe co author of the phenomenal New York Times bestselling classic The One Minute Manager(R) explores the skills needed to become an effective self leader in this essential work, now updated throughout. Just as Ken Blanchard's phenomenal bestselling classic The One Minute Manager gives leaders the three secrets to managing others, so this follow up book gives people the three secrets to managing themselves. In Self Leadership and the One Minute

The co-author of the phenomenal New York Times bestselling classic The One Minute Manager(R) explores the skills needed to become an effective self leader in this essential work, now updated throughout.

Just as Ken Blanchard's phenomenal bestselling classic The One Minute Manager gives leaders the three secrets to managing others, so this follow-up book gives people the three secrets to managing themselves. In Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager, readers will learn that accepting personal responsibility for their own success leads to power, freedom, and autonomy.

Through a captivating business parable, Ken Blanchard and coauthors Susan Fowler and Laurence Hawkins show readers how to apply the world-renowned Situational Leadership(R) II method to their own development. The story centers on Steve, a young advertising executive who is about to lose his job. Through a series of talks with a One Minute Manager protégé named Cayla, Steve learns the three secrets of self leadership. His newfound skills not only empower Steve to keep his job, but also show him how to ditch his victim mentality to continue growing, learning, and achieving.

For decades, millions of managers in Fortune 500 companies and small businesses around the world have followed Ken Blanchard's management methods to increase productivity, job satisfaction, and personal prosperity. Now, this newly revised edition of Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager empowers people at every level of the organization to achieve success.

The path to success isn't about waiting to be led--it's about learning to lead yourself.

• Empowerment in the Workplace: Learn how to stop waiting for others to empower you and start creating your own power, freedom, and autonomy--even when you're not in charge.
• Situational Leadership(R) II for Yourself: Discover how to diagnose your own development level on any task and get the specific direction and support you need to master new skills and reach your goals.
• Overcoming Assumed Constraints: Challenge the self-limiting beliefs that hold you back, just as Steve, the book's protagonist, learns to move from a victim mentality to a proactive mindset.
• A Captivating Business Parable: Follow a simple, engaging story that makes complex management and leadership skills easy to understand, remember, and apply immediately.