Leadership and the One Minute Manager
K. Blanchard, P. Zigarmi, D. Zigarmi
Publisher: Harper ©2000, ISBN: 0007103417
This book belongs to the series “The One Minute Manager” and describes the 4 leadership styles in business: steering, instructing, supporting and delegating. Besides this, it goes into leadership in general and explains why the ideal is to lead employees individually. Although the first edition was published in 1985, the statements are still valid. The book has been translated into German (“Führungsstile”).
Managing Performing Living
Effective Management for a New Era
Fredmund Malik
Publisher: Campus ©2006 ISBN: 3593382784
This book deals with personnel management in the modern style, a connection between numbers, data, facts and leadership, with traps and successful approaches. In addition, it goes into the manager personality and how managers can form their business and private life in a positive manner for themselves and others. The original book is in German (“Führen Leisten Leben”).
The One Minute Manager
Kenneth Blanchard, Spencer Johnson
Publisher: Harper ©2000, ISBN: 0007107927
This book is the source of the series “The One Minute Manager”. It describes the importance for managers taking one minute of their time every day looking into the eyes of the people they are cooperating with and that good leadership does not necessarily take much time. Although the first edition was published in 1982, the statements are still valid. The book has been translated into German (“Der Minuten Manager”).
The One Minute Manager
meets the Monkey
K. Blanchard, W. Oncken Jr., H. Burrows
Publisher: Harper ©1954, ISBN: 0060878975
This book belongs to the series “The One Minute Manager” and describes the monkeys (= those tasks we are putting on our shoulders despite the fact that they are not ours), how we catch those monkeys and how we can protect ourselves against them. Although the first edition was published in 1989, the statements are still valid. The book has been translated into German (“Der Minuten Manager und der Klammeraffe”).
The Practice of Management
Peter F. Drucker
Publisher: Harper ©1954, ISBN: 0060878975
This book can be seen as one of the fundamentals of modern management theory. Written in the fifties of the last century, it analyses management and leadership, the differences between these and the positive effects of a human driven approach to business success.
Literature:
Management, Process and Quality, Project Management, Personality, Miscellaneous