Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute - Softcover

Blanchard, Ken; Carlos, John P; Randolph, Alan; Carlos, John P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1576751538 ISBN 13: 9781576751534

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2001

Synopsis

In the newly updated edition of this classic empowerment business fable—over 400,000 copies sold—Ken Blanchard and John Carlos show you how to shift to an empowered, employee-driven work environment.
 
Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute tells the story of a young manager whose attempts to turn his troubled company around through traditional top-down, command-and-control management are failing. Reluctantly, he contacts an expert in empowerment, even though he feels like he's already tried that approach. Step by step, the expert helps him understand why his past and present efforts have fallen short and figure out what he needs to do to create an empowered workforce. The process as it unfolds is complex, paradoxical, and counterintuitive—but well worth the effort.
 
This new edition dispels the notion that empowerment is a bygone fad. No matter what its name, the essential concept—that organizations can achieve extraordinary results by recognizing and taking advantage of the skills, experience, and knowledge already existing in the organization—will always be relevant. Although sometimes arduous, the journey to empowerment is well worth embarking on. In fact, unleashing the power of people in an organization may be the only way to continue to do business in a competitive, complicated marketplace.

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From the Publisher

"The most truthful, straight-talk book on managing people to come along in eons. This is an exceptional tool for business."—Harvey Mackay, author of Swim With the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive

"The authors show that empowerment is more than an empty promise. A must-read for liberating the leader within people."—Barry Z. Posner, coauthor of The Leadership Challenge and Credibility

From the Back Cover

These expert authors explain how to empower the workforce by moving from a control-and-be-controlled mindset to a supportive, responsibility-centered environment in which all employees have the opportunity to do their best. They explain how to build responsibility and trust, and they define the three essential keys to making empowerment work in large and small organizations: 1. sharing information with everyone; 2. creating autonomy through boundaries; and 3. replacing old hierarchies with self-managed teams. Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute reveals the dilemmas and paradoxes inherent in attempting to create an empowered workplace and culture. The authors present a clear case in support of the bottom-line value of empowerment, and provide a masterful plan for getting there.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1576751538
• ISBN 13: 9781576751534
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 135