Product Description

The alternative way towards better team-building, this is the bestselling management tool from the author of The One Minute Manager. Most managers spend over half their time working with a team, and the One Minute Manager's practical advice shows how any team can work better and more effectively. The One Minute Manager Builds High Performing Teams explains the four stages on the way to building a high performing team: Orientation, Dissatisfaction, Resolution and Production and reveals how to tap the creativity and potential of people at all levels in order to become an effective group leader.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11781 in Books
• Published on: 2000-05-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

About the Author
Ken Blanchard is the founder and Chairman of The Ken Blanchard Companies. His One Minute Manager series has sold over thirteen million copies and been translated into more than 25 languages. He has also written or co-authored numerous other books, including Gung Ho!, Big Bucks! and Raving Fans

Customer Reviews

Simple, But Important Steps to Team-Based Success
All of us know and can do more than any one of us. That's the logic that makes everyone understand the potential of teams. Just watch a championship sports team, and imagine trying to overcome them by yourself. Fat chance!

Yet when teams gets started, they often work less well than an individual. What's needed to get from here to there? That's what this book is all about.

A common problem is putting a team together, giving them a task, and waiting for the good results. That won't work. People have to have the right skills, knowledge, information, tools, and attitude to perform. That includes experience with working together on teams. For example, if you put a bunch of Internet-oriented people together on a team to play basketball against the Lakers, the results might not be too good for your new team. Bill Jenson's book, Simplicity, is a good resource on this point, as well.

This book does a good job of showing you how you can help the green team become the great team. If you want to enjoy more success in your enterprise, this book is essential reading.

Thanks again!
Every time I read one of Blanchard's books I know it will be brilliant, but every time I get more surprised at the unbelievably simple and brilliant way that him and his colleagues deliver their message in.
I must say that I have become a "Blanchardian" after reading almost all his publications. I am a business consultant, and I have seen his models work for real. Teams were something I didn't have much of luck with, but after this book I have become an "expert" on team management.

Thank you, again!

Good for managing dogs or idiotic employees ...
Same story as most of the other best-selling One Minute Manager books - People can be managed like dogs or idiotic children. The approach works great if you're the Manager applying the BS but if you're forced to eat it (ie you're an employee / human resource), it can be very frustrating and mentally destabilizing. On a serious note, there's a sinister agenda running through these books, highly stacked in favor of 'managers'.

Great book for the skindeep, none-too-bright, busy executive wanting a quick-fix to inflict onto his stupid employees and / or a line of crap to spout to his upper levels!