Blanchard Ken Boeken

A step-by-step primer on using appropriate apologies as a means of improving company integrity and employee morale

In this reissue of his popular book, H.V. Morton goes in search of Ireland by motor-car and finds, amongst other things, a Norman village in Galway, lobster fishers, a girl in need of an apron in Connemara and a great many beds in which Michael Collins is said to have slept.

Ken Blanchard is one of America's best-known leadership and business experts. And now he helps you understand and experience the art of influence by revealing the greatest life and leadership lessons he's learned in his rich career as an educator and business leader. The Heart of a Leader offers Blanchard's insight and wisdom on: Choosing values Aiming for excellence Maintaining integrity Finding the courage to change Helping others reach their potential And much more Arranged with your busy schedule in mind, this book offers you Blanchard's most important concepts in an accessible format. You can reach for instant motivation and insight on a daily basis or soak it up in one reading. Powerfully challenging and deeply inspiring, The Heart of a Leader will enable you to develop the courageous heart of a true leader. master key attitudes and actions to impact lives around you. and enjoy the profound wisdom that only Ken Blanchard can deliver.

One simple idea can set you free: Don't take on a problem if it isn't yours! One of the most liberating books in the extraordinary One Minute Manager Library teaches managers an unforgettable lesson: how to have time to do what they want and need to do. The authors tell why managers who accept every problem given them by their staffs become hopeless bottlenecks. With a vivid, humorous, and too-familar scenario they show a manager loaded down by all the monkeys that have jumped from their rightful owners onto his back. Then step by step they show how managers can free themselves from doing everyone else's job and ensure that every problem is handled by the proper staff person. By using Oncken's Four Rules of Monkey Management managers will learn to become effective supervisors of time, energy, and talent -- especially their own. If you have ever wondered why you are in the office on the weekends and your staff is on the golf course, The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey is for youit's priceless!

Newly updated and backed by decades of research, this classic guide will equip leaders and team members alike to unleash the power of teamwork. Never before in the history of the workplace has the concept of teamwork been more important to the functioning of successful organizations. Ken Blanchard, bestselling coauthor of Raving Fans, The One Minute Manager® and Gung Ho!, teams up with Donald Carew and Eunice Parisi-Carew to explain how all groups move through four stages of development on their way to becoming high performing teams—orientation, dissatisfaction, integration and production. The authors then show how a manager can help any group become effective quickly and with a minimum of stress.

Who Killed Change?Solving the Mystery of Leading People Through ChangeEvery day organizations around the world launch change initiatives—often big, expensive ones—designed to improve the status quo. Yet 50 to 70 percent of these change efforts fail. A few perish suddenly, but many die painful, protracted deaths that drain the organization's resources, energy and morale.Who or What Is Killing Change?That's what you'll find out in this witty whodunit. The story features a Columbo-style detective, Agent Mike McNally, who's investigating the murder of yet another change. One by one, Agent McNally interviews thirteen prime suspects, including a myopic leader named Victoria Vision; a chronically tardy manager named Ernest Urgency; an executive named Clair Communication, whose laryngitis makes communication all but impossible; and several other dubious characters.The suspects are sure to sound familiar and you're bound to relate them to your own workplace. In the end, Agent McNally solves the case in a way that will inspire you to become an effective Change Agent in your own organization.A step-by-step guide at the back of the book shows you how to apply the story's lessons to the real world. Key questions help you evaluate the health of your organization's change initiatives, and you'll learn best practices for enabling and sustaining the desired change.

In August 1941 Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt met secretly on HMS Prince of Wales, moored just off the coast of Newfoundland. H. V. Morton was invited to accompany the Prime Minister and his entourage and this is H. V. Morton's account of the trip, now re-published to commemorate the seventy- fifth anniversary of the event.

In his classic book on London, H. V. Morton turns his traveller's intuition and his reporter's eye for detail on the city that fascinated him since childhood.

Svet zúfalo hľadá alternatívny model vodcovstva. Médiá sú plné škandálov, zrady dôvery a manipulácií, ktorých sa dopúšťajú ľudia vo vplyvných pozíciách. Lídri súkromných firiem aj verejní činitelia zneužívajú výsady svojho postavenia, čím ruinujú svojich zamestnancov, občanov a investorov. Medzitým obyvatelia rozvojových krajín trú biedu vďaka obrovskej korupcii vo vlastných krajinách. Predstavení cirkví zlyhávajú a kompromitujú nielen svoje cirkvi, ale množia medzi ľuďmi skepticizmus a sklamanie z viery. Z rodinných a osobných vzťahov sa vytráca dôvera a stávajú sa bojiskami, kde zápasí každý s každým za kúsok svojho šťastia.

Książka opisuje sposób, w jaki różnego typu firmy mogą osiągnąć większy sukces - mierzony nie w kategoriach rozmiarów bądź zysków, lecz z punktu widzenia jakości życia ich pracowników oraz jakości świadczonych usług. Poprzez zaangażowanie się w dążenie do wspólnego celu i dzielenie pewnych wartości każda organizacja może prowadzić działalność biznesową w sposób pozwalający wszystkim zainteresowanym - właścicielom i udziałowcom, pracownikom, odbiorcom i klientom - wygrywać. Książka Zarządzanie przez wartości, napisana w oparciu o materiały zgromadzone podczas ponad dwudziestopięcioletnich badań, a także na postawie obserwacji dotyczących zastosowania zdobytej wiedzy w praktyce, w sposób szczegółowy opisuje praktyczny plan działania. Plan ten ma na celu określenie najważniejszych wartości organizacji, zakomunikowanie ich pośród związanych z nią ludzi, zestrojenie z bieżącymi praktykami, a także osiągnięcie nowego, wyższego poziomu sukcesu organizacyjnego. Ken Blanchard, główny przywódca duchowy Ken Blanchard Companies, jest współautorem „Jednominutowego Menedżera”, „Cała naprzód!” i kilkunastu innych bestsellerów. Michael O'Connor jest współzałożycielem i dyrektorem Center for Managing by Values (Ośrodka zarządzania przez wartości). O'Connor jest uznanym ekspertem w zakresie badań behawioralnych. Specjalizuje się w dziedzinach strategii, zachowania oraz wyników zorientowanych na proces.