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The Leadership Pill: The Missing Ingredient in Motivating People Today
Ken Blanchard , and Marc Muchnick Manufacturer: Free Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 074325001X |
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Now 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 new 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.
Consider this tantalizing possibility: What if there were a pill that could actually stimulate the natural powers of the mind and body to provide leadership? In the story, an amazing new pill heightens one leader's powers, but contains the wrong ingredients, stimulating 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.
Destined to be a transforming experience for countless readers, The Leadership Pill shows business managers at any level how to apply the right techniques for getting both results and the commitment of their people, even when the pressure to perform is high.
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A complex metaphor that makes an excellent point.......2007-08-09
Typical Ken Blanchard.......2007-07-03
Great tips to motivating others.......2006-10-30
Great!.......2006-08-04
Commonsensical ..... BUT.......2005-11-13
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The Little Book of Coaching: Motivating People to Be Winners
Ken Blanchard , and Don Shula Manufacturer: Collins ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0066621038 |
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Are the people who report to you giving you their best? Is each individual on your team performing to his or her fullest potential?
For more than thirty years, renowned business consultant and bestselling author Ken Blanchard and legendary NFL coach Don Shula have motivated teams to peak performances. In their classic, authoritative work on coaching, Everyone's a Coach, they distilled their rich collective experience down to its key elements and shared their secrets for inspiring others to greatness.
Now, by popular demand, Blanchard and Shula have created The Little Book of Coaching, capturing the essence of their classic in this indispensable motivational gem--a gift to their readers and fans.
At the heart of this book is a simple acronym that describes the qualities of an effective leader:
Conviction-driven--Never compromise your beliefsOverlearning--Practice until it's perfect
Audible-ready--Know when to change
Consistency--Respond predictably to performance
Honesty-based--Walk your talk
Using a highly effective "tag-team" approach, Blanchard and Shula impart the five leadership secrets behind this acronym. Shula tells you how each coaching concept worked on the field, and then Blanchard explains how you can apply each strategy in a leadership situation.
Instructive and inspirational, The Little Book of Coaching is the essential handbook that will teach you how to unleash excellence in anyone.
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One of the Best Books I've Read.......2006-04-23
Very brief.......2005-05-13
Four Stars.......2003-08-14
Double Benefits.......2002-10-15
How to make yourself stay competitive and strong is as important as how to motivate people surrounded you to spearhead to victory.
Business guru Kenneth Blanchard and NFL coach Don Shula share with us their perspectives on coaching and leadership with different methods but same objective. So you can have a better view of how to improve your own coaching skill.
One book, one price for two professional and treasurable insights. It's obviously a best buy!
Simple and Powerful.......2002-08-19
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Harvard Business Review on Motivating People (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series)
Brook Manville , and Steve Kerr Manufacturer: Harvard Business School Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1591391326 |
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Harvard Business Review on Motivating People
Lack of motivation can lead to employee inefficiency and low productivity-not to mention higher turnover rate. This evergreen collection of Harvard Business Review articles will help managers in struggling companies retain their key workers and create happy working environments. This timeless volume features new and classic articles on leadership, inspiration, compensation, performance measurement, and more.
The Harvard Business Review Paperback Series
The series is designed to bring today's managers and professionals the fundamental information they need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world. From the preeminent thinkers whose work has defined an entire field to the rising stars who will redefine the way we think about business, here are the leading minds and landmark ideas that have established the Harvard Business Review as required reading for ambitious businesspeople in organizations around the globe.
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Motivating People (Essential Managers)
Robert Heller Manufacturer: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0751306290 |
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It's become trendy for business books to exhort managers to "empower" their people and imbue them with a sense of workplace "ownership"--still, it all comes down to the vexing question of how to motivate people to do their best work everyday. In its 72 sprightly and well-designed pages, this hardworking pocket-sized book shows you how to do just that. First, you'll learn how to tap into what it is your people really want from their jobs (other than a paycheck and paid holidays); then, how to act on those needs to get them really psyched (by improving communication, encouraging initiative, and creating a "no-blame" work culture); and fire them up to give their best, both individually and in groups, by preventing or resparking "demotivated" workers, enriching each job's potential and scope, and helping them build their career profiles. More importantly, you'll learn how to reward employee achievement by motivating through change, recognizing exceptional performance, and keeping motivation at a constantly high level. On every page, boxed tips, quick-reference checklists, vivid mini case studies, and easy-to-follow flow charts make the motivation process not only clear and simple to activate, but even rather fun. Granted, if you're looking for very specific or in-depth guidance, you might find this book too cursory and general in its approach. But, if you're looking for a thumbnail guide to the basics, it'll do just fine.It's worth mentioning that the book is part of the "Essential Managers" series by reference publisher Dorling-Kindersley--a series comprising 20 itty-bitty books on business and career topics that range from communication, leadership, and decision-making to the management of time, budgets, change, meetings, people, projects, and teams. Combining the talent of the "For Dummies" book series for breaking down a lot of information into bite-sized bits and sidebars with Dorling-Kindersley's signature design style of crisp, classy graphics on a gleaming white backdrop, the books don't represent the cutting edge of business thinking or reflect necessarily any unique individual perspective. Instead, it's as if someone had collated the best general thinking on these 20 topics, and rolled them out into 72 brightly designed and easy-to-read pages--studded along the way with boxed tips, color shots of a multiracial cast of "coworkers" animatedly hashing through the workplace issues of the day, and, on the last few pages of each volume, a self-test of one's skills in the topic at hand. Again, they're not for anyone who's looking for more in-depth or focused help on any of the covered subjects, but they're perfect as a quick general-interest reference; and, let's face it, they're so damn cute, and look so smart in a neat little stack or row, that probably you'll want to buy a whole bunch to give as gifts to your entire staff or department. --Timothy Murphy
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Learn how to instill the traits of an inspirational leader in your employees ---- and reap the rewards! Learn all you need to know about motivating people, from learning how to bring out the best in people by understanding basic human needs to encouraging individual initiative and rewarding achievement. Motivating People shows you how to increase production and job satisfaction, and it provides practical techniques to try in different situations. Power tips help you handle real--life situations and develop the first--class motivation skills that are the key to a productive and informed workplace. The Essential Manager has sold more than 1.9 million copies worldwide! Experienced and novice managers alike can benefit from these compact guides that slip easily into a briefcase or a portfolio. The topics are relevant to every work environment, from large corporations to small businesses. Concise treatments of dozens of business techniques, skills, methods, and problems are presented with hundreds of photos, charts, and diagrams. It is the most exciting and accessible approach to business and self--improvement available.Customer Reviews:
Good travel book.......2007-02-17
Motivation - Providing Best Techniques to People.......2004-01-10
What does it take to Motivate People?.......2001-05-08
Are your employees overloaded with work? Are they clearly demotivated? When you start to see the negative signs you might also see absenteeism is increasing. You could try a employee survey or you can analyze your own talks with your employees to find out what they are feeling.
Some of the power tips I enjoyed reading:
"Praise work well done, even if some targets are missed." -pg. 24 "Provide training in small, regular doses rather than one long course." -pg. 45
Very practical and I think the points in this book will help you to create a more positive work environment for your employees.
Concise yet useful handbook.......2000-07-14
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Maximizing People Power in Schools: Motivating and Managing Teachers and Staff (Successful Schools)
Larry E. Frase Manufacturer: Corwin Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0803960158 Release Date: 1992-04-30 |
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This volume focuses on maximizing productivity of teachers and other school staff and covers all phases of professional development. Specific suggestions are given on a number of areas, such as hiring the best teachers, providing quality in-service training, motivating and evaluating teachers, arresting burnout, dismissing incompetent teachers and using support staff resources.Customer Reviews:
Some good practical advice, some not so good........1999-02-23
It gets tiresome at times to read works from scholars and so called consultants, when what we need is work from those currently in the field.
That said, the book is worth a read if you have the time to weed out what is not realistic or doable.
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Incentives for Change: Motivating People with Autism Spectrum Disorders to Learn and Gain Independence
Lara, Ph.D. Delmolino , and Sandra L. Harris Manufacturer: Woodbine House ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1890627607 |
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As many parents and teachers know, people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) can be difficult to motivate, especially when asked to learn something new. Finding the right incentives to support learning is one of the crucial first steps in teaching them new skills. Written by two autism specialists with nearly 50 years combined experience, INCENTIVES FOR CHANGE explores systems for determining what incentives children and adults with ASD will find rewarding, and ways to use motivation as a tool to affect their learning and behavior.This easy-to-follow guide explains a variety of motivational methods and systems, including how to:
--Identify potential incentives
--Transition from concrete to intangible incentives
--Use reinforcements or rewards to increase motivation
--Teach a child to "mand" or express what he wants
--Understand "establishing operation" and other concepts that affect motivation
--Motivate children with ASD to make choices
--Implement token systems to enable children to delay reinforcement
--Encourage independence and self-management skills
What skills and behaviors can be taught using the motivational techniques presented in this book? Parents and teachers will find methods for teaching a wide variety of social skills, such as interacting playfully with others and making eye contact, and life skills such as getting dressed and doing chores. These techniques can also help students with ASD learn academic subjects in school and control interfering behaviors like hand flapping or rocking back and forth.
INCENTIVES FOR CHANGE contains many real-life case studies of families who are using motivational systems in a variety of situations to help their child learn and gain a greater measure of independence. When put to use, these systems can enhance learning opportunities for every person on the autism spectrum from the youngest to the oldest, and from the least to most receptive to change.
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An instructional for caregivers of all backgrounds.......2005-01-11
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Rags to Riches: Motivating Stories of How Ordinary People Achieved Extraordinary Wealth!
Gail Liberman , and Alan Lavine Manufacturer: Dearborn Trade ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0793133920 |
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From magician to manufacturing magnate, financial columnist to real estate investor, poet to college drop-out, here are the profiles of 17 ordinary people who started with nothing. Husband-wife financial journalist team Gail Liberman and Alan Lavine collaborate on an engaging and insightful journey into the lives, histories and backgrounds of people who have themselves traveled from rags to riches and are willing to share their insights. The authors add their professional perspectives employed by these people to amass and retain their fortunes, and tips to avoid the downside of wealth.Each story illustrates a different wealth accumulation and retention strategy. Readers will meet the likes of:
* Bootstrap Entrepreneur Lisa Renshaw, who lived in a 10 x 12 foot room for three and a half years while she built her parking garage into a respectable business, now employing 300 people, with 68 garages and parking lots, and generating $28 million in annual revenues.
* Pro golfer Juan "Chi Chi" Rodriguez, a Puerto Rican sugar laborer turned golf caddy who developed fame and wealth by living his passion.
* Poet and university instructor Maya Angelou, who was asked to deliver an original poem at Bill Clinton's inauguration. Since then she has written 11 best sellers.
* Record mogul David Geffen, a ne'er do well high school drop-out who co-founded DreamWorks film studio and is now worth 2.3 billion.
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Great to keep you going ..........2005-09-19
Simple people like you did it, now its your turn.......2004-03-30
Zev Saftlas, Author of Motivation That Works: How to Get Motivated and Stay Motivated
Poor.......2003-07-10
A Work Of Excellence For All Would-Be Entrepreneurs.......2002-03-10
These stories presented to us people who overcame poverty and middle-class lifestyles, to achieve financial success to the highest degree.
This book contains inspiration for everyone, but first let me say here that these people did not become successful by good luck charms or magic or by just simply having a 'godfather' or any such thing. The folk in these stories were strong-minded individuals with faith in the ventures they had set their sights on, and they all made it single-handedly. They were not from high-society backgrounds or people with influential friends who were always in the limelight, for they had tremendous struggles, fighting against great odds. Each of them had some handicap.....some stumbling block in their pathways. Eg. Jay Thiessens who built a five million a year business was an illiterate man......yet he was a great mathematician.
These millionaires were especially challenged as children but most of them were given the encouragement from family members which allowed them inner strength and taught them how to make sacrifices and to be fearless of taking risks.
Read this book of excellence and meet David Copperfield, Maya Angelou, David Geffen, Lisa Renshaw, Del Hedgepath, Juan Rodriguez and so many more. You'll definitely be motivated and hopefully your strong will too will carry you from RAGS TO RICHES. Highly recommended!!
Nutface
March 9th, 2002
A bunch of biographies!.......2001-08-28
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Motivating People (Barron's Business Success Guides)
Dayle M. Smith Manufacturer: Barron's Educational Series ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0812098986 |
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Motivating People for Improved Performance (Results Driven Manager)
Manufacturer: Harvard Business School Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1591397790 |
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Managers are under increasing pressure to deliver better results faster than the competition. But meeting today’s tough challenges requires complete mastery of a full array of management skills, from communicating and coaching to public speaking and managing people. The Results-Driven Manager series is designed to help time-pressed managers hone and polish the skills they need most. Concise, action-oriented, and packed with invaluable strategies and tools, these timely guides will help managers improve their job performance today—and give them the edge they need to become the leaders of tomorrow. If talent is an organization’s most important asset, maximizing that talent is its most critical challenge. This guide will help managers develop the skills to motivate people to perform at their best. • Make Work Meaningful and Rewarding ¿ Foster Commitment and Innovation ¿ Retain Top PerformersCustomer Reviews:
simple and/or simplistic.......2005-09-21
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Motivating People to be Physically Active
Bess Marcus , and Leighann Forsyth Manufacturer: Human Kinetics Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
Accessories: ASIN: 0736040641 |
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Motivating Yourself to Read This Book in its Entirety.......2004-08-30
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