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Summary: Optimize your leadership skills
Review: This book shows you how to becoming a situational leader by:1. Crystallizing goals that are clear to both the manager and the people involved. 2. Participating together to examine "competence" and "commitment" to accomplish those goals. 3. Contracting with each employee about the tasks at hand and jointly agreeing which leadership style will likely be most effective. This is Optimal Thinking, the mental software needed to optimize performance. 4. Following through to provide the agreed-upon leadership style until feedback suggests another option. The book provides a realistic roadmap for diagnosing each employee's status in relation to important goals. This book provides a practical roadmap for the leader. Read it and read Optimal Thinking: How to Be Your Best Self to learn how to optimize your thinking, be your best, bring out the best in others and create the best results. This is a 10-star combination!
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Summary: This book is a MUST for new Managers... and for old ones
Review: This is a step by step journey from Management to Situational Leadership. You will read it again and again as you move forward in your career and face new challenges with new teams, new direct reports and new bosses. This is also an excellent present for some one that is facing a management position for the first time.
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Summary: Great book for any leader or manager
Review: This is an excellent book on situational leadership. It outlines what would seem to be a simple process to becoming a situational leader. The examples given are relevant and the book was very easy to read. The most valuable concept I learned from the book was the concept of "different strokes for the same folks," meaning that you can use different leadership styles with the same person depending on the task at hand. The only thing I didn't really care for about this book was the way in which it was written. The whole book consists of conversations between "the entrepreneur," the "one minute manager," and the subordinates of the one minute manager. It was kind of cheesy at some times, but it got the point across loud and clear.
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Summary: Utter Garbage! A Disaster Waiting to Happen
Review: This is, in my not so humble opinion, the worst business book since "Leadership Secrets of Attilla the Hun". It's overly simplistic and it's a recipe for disaster. You can *not* be effective in business if you treat the people who work for you this way. What is even sadder is that there are actually companies that train all their managers with this "model". I read it and wept. I heartily recommend Michael Hall's "Games Business Experts Play". It's listed here with a 1 - 3 week shipping delay. Amazon[.com], if you folks read these reviews, stock up on GBEP...
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