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Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard, Susan Fowler and Laurence Hawkins — WisdomDeck honest review
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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.

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Three things you will actually use

  1. Challenge assumed constraints.
  2. Know what you need and ask for it.
  3. Points of power: position, task, personal, relationship, knowledge.

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Diagnose yourself on one task and ask your manager for the matching support.

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Manage yourself first.

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