Ken Blanchard's phenomenal bestsellers, such as
The One Minute Manager and
Raving Fans, have made him a globally recognized business legend. Now, he has joined with noted business author Steve Gottry to explore one of the most common and insidious problems plaguing the workplace - procrastination.
The On-Time, On-Target Manager tells the highly recognizable story of Bob, a middle manager who tends to put things off to the last minute. He misses deadlines, rationalizes, justifies, and tries to explain. Luckily, Bob is sent to his company's CEO - a new kind of CEO - the "Chief Effectiveness Officer" - who helps him deal with the three negative side effects of procrastination: lateness, poor work quality, and stress to himself and others. Bob learns how to overcome procrastination, and transforms himself into a productive On-Time, On-Target Manager through the Three P strategy.
With this engaging parable, Blanchard and Gottry tackle the problem of procrastination head-on, offering practical strategies any professional can immediately put into practice to improve his or her performance.
Nonperformers, late performers, and the stress connected to both in complex organizations are targeted in Ken Blanchard's latest writing collaboration. The audio lesson is cleverly framed as an opportunity to be one's best--and the story used to unfold the lesson is both charming and current. Performance oversights and delays ripple through every person and every level of an organization by forcing people to work under pressure, worry about mistakes, and become accustomed to problems that diminish the company. Not a step-by-step manual, the program offers broad principles on the emotional changes that have to take place before any behavioral steps can take hold. T.W. (c) AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine
