Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager
by Ken Blanchard, Susan Fowler and Laurence Hawkins
Situational Leadership turned inward: diagnose your own competence and commitment on a task, ask for the direction or support you need, and challenge your assumed constraints. A parable, brief, and useful for anyone who waits to be managed.
Read it if…
you want to stop waiting for a manager to develop you.
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Skip it if…
you lead others; see Leadership and the One Minute Manager.
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Three things you will actually use
- Challenge assumed constraints.
- Know what you need and ask for it.
- Points of power: position, task, personal, relationship, knowledge.
Do this first
Diagnose yourself on one task and ask your manager for the matching support.
Our verdict
Manage yourself first.
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