How 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 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.
What if there were a pill that could actually stimulate the natural powers of the mind and body to provide leadership? In the story, a new pill heightens one leader's powers, but contains the wrong ingredients, sending 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.
The Leadership Pill shows business managers at any level how to apply the right techniques for getting both results and the commitment of their employees, even when the pressure to perform is high.
"As instructive as it is entertaining, with a positive message that can truly help managers at any level to develop effective leadership."
~ Marcus Buckingham, coauthor of First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths
Details:
Category: Managing another
ISBN-13: 978-0-743-25001-6
Publisher: Free Press/Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 2003
Edition description:
Pages: 128
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.53(d)
Also available in paperback, audio, and e-reader formats
Ken Blanchard, one of the most influential leadership experts in the world, is the coauthor of the iconic bestseller, The One Minute Manager, and more than 60 other books whose combined sales total more than 21 million copies. His groundbreaking works have been translated into more than 42 languages and in 2005 he was inducted into Amazon’s Hall of Fame as one of the top 25 bestselling authors of all time. He is also the cofounder with his wife, Margie, of The Ken Blanchard Companies® , an international management training and consulting firm in San Diego, California.
Marc Muchnick is founder and president of People First Group and author of Naked Management: Bare Essentials for Motivating the X-Generation at Work. He is an internationally known motivational speaker, leadership expert, and online management professor with featured appearances on CNN and in major business journals.
