Authors: Ken Blanchard, Steven R. Gottry, Brian Corrigan
ISBN-13: 9780060584825, ISBN-10: 0060584823
Format: Compact Disc
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: January 2004
Edition: Unabridged, 2 CDs, 2 hrs.
Ken Blanchard is an international bestselling author and motivational speaker whose books, including The One Minute Manager®, The One Minute Entrepreneur™, and Leading at a Higher Level, have sold more than eighteen million copies in thirty languages. He lives in San Diego, California.
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...
Foreword | ix | |
Introduction | xiii | |
1 | Late For A Very Important Date | 1 |
2 | Changes Ahead | 9 |
3 | The First P | 15 |
4 | The First Test | 23 |
5 | Denial | 29 |
6 | The Second P | 41 |
7 | The "Bill of Rights" | 45 |
8 | Deep in Thought | 71 |
9 | Whose Alphabet is it, Anyway? | 79 |
10 | Another Night of Thought | 85 |
11 | Not More of This! | 93 |
12 | On-Time, On-Target | 97 |
13 | The Perfect Solution | 107 |
Epilogue: A Personal Note from the Authors | 111 | |
You Can Make a Difference ... | 117 | |
Acknowledgments | 119 | |
About the Authors | 123 |