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An action guide and macro-level understanding of the process required to foster the workplace culture envisioned in Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute .
As Ken Blanchard, John Carlos, and Alan Randolph clearly demonstrated in their previous bestseller, Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute , empowerment is not a goal that can be achieved in a minute. Empowerment is a process that requires ongoing effort, awareness, and commitment to transforming the hierarchy. This essential guide offers managers detailed, hands-on answers to their real-life questions about how, exactly, they can navigate the journey to empowerment.
Written in an easily accessible Q&A format, the book closely examines and expands on the three keys to empowerment originally presented in Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute -sharing information, creating autonomy through boundaries, and replacing the hierarchy with teams. It clearly outlines the promises and challenges of each stage of the journey, providing managers with thought-provoking questions, clear advice, effective activities, and action tools that will help them create a culture of empowerment. Wherever they are in the journey, managers will find a clear roadmap in this user-friendly action guide.
Praise for Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute
"The most truthful, straight-talk book on managing people to come along in eons. This is an exceptional tool for business."-Harvey MacKay, #1 New York Times -bestselling author
"One of the very best organized, thought out, planned, and written books on any business subject I have read."-Stanley Bass, Human Resources Consultant, Stan Bass Consulting
Author Notes
Kenneth Hartely Blanchard was born May 6, 1939, in Orange, New Jersey. He married Marjorie McKee, a business consultant, in 1962. He founded Blanchard Training and Development in 1977.
Blanchard has cowritten several books on management, including one of the best-selling management books of all time, The One-Minute Manager (1982) with Spencer Johnson. In the book, the authors describe effective and efficient management skills. The basics to good management are setting goals, praising, and reprimanding. Blanchard says that these skills can easily be translated to work in the home as well as the office.
Blanchard lives in San Diego, California.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. ix |
| Introduction: The Challenge of Moving to Empowerment | p. 1 |
| Chapter 1. Releasing the Power within People | p. 3 |
| Chapter 2. Using Situational Leadership II to Guide the Journey | p. 19 |
| Stage 1 Starting and Orienting the Journey | p. 45 |
| Chapter 3. Key #1: Share Information to Kick-Start the Process | p. 47 |
| Chapter 4. Key #2: Declare Clear Boundaries to Begin Creating Autonomy | p. 75 |
| Chapter 5. Key #3: Begin Developing Teams to Replace the Hierarchy | p. 101 |
| Stage 2 Change and Discouragement | p. 123 |
| Chapter 6. Key #1: Share More Information and Listen for Information | p. 127 |
| Chapter 7. Key #2: Widen the Boundaries to Create More Autonomy and Responsibility | p. 153 |
| Chapter 8. Key #3: Let Teams Take on More of the Hierarchical Roles | p. 179 |
| Stage 3 Adopting and Refining Empowerment | p. 197 |
| Chapter 9. Key #1: Enhance Information Sharing to Drive Performance | p. 201 |
| Chapter 10. Key #2: Incorporate Boundaries into Everyone's Value System | p. 219 |
| Chapter 11. Key #3: Let Teams Replace the Hierarchy | p. 235 |
| Conclusion: A Look Back (and Forward) at the Journey | p. 247 |
| Chapter 12. Summarizing the Action Plan for Creating Empowerment | p. 249 |
| Notes | p. 257 |
| Index | p. 261 |