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 enlarge | Author: Dandridge M. Malone
Publisher: Presidio Press
Category: Book
List Price: $17.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 23612
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 170
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.8 x 0.7
ISBN: 0891411739
Dewey Decimal Number: 355.33041
EAN: 9780891411734
ASIN: 0891411739
Publication Date: January 25, 1997
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 Gets to the point January 22, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A tiny, little book - but packs alot in there. This little book clearly conveys its messages via very easily understandable examples. Sometimes it is a bit too combat-centric, but for the most part, is applicable to most leadership roles.
 Great For Non-Military Leaders, Too January 18, 2007
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I was an NYPD supervisor (Sergeant and Lieutenant)and found this book very helpful. Even if you *aren't* in a military or law enforcement organization, this book can help you. It talks about leadership and personnel management issues that apply to *every* supervisor or leader in *every* business or profession. For example, Malone breaks down personnel into 4 categories:
*Willing and able - Tell this person what to do, and when you want it done by, and leave them alone.
*Willing but UN-able (such as the "new guy") - Help this person with training and coaching to do what you want done.
*Able but unwilling (the classic shirker)- Needs motivation and supervision to get the job done.
*Unable and unwilling - ideally, would not be in your organization, but if you are stuck with them, need training, motivation, and supervision to learn what they have to do, and then get it done.
(Obviously, if a poor perfomer had personal problems of some kind, their supervisor would have to address those appropriately.)
Malone's explanation of these categories alone is worth the price of this book.
Another great leadership book: "Top Performance" by Zig Ziglar. He's a sales trainer, but really understands the core of leadership and teaching. Easy to read (I got it on audio tape), and well worth your while.
great September 24, 2005
1 out of 42 found this review helpful
Item came on time and as promised. Could not ask for a better delivery situation.
Most USEFUL leadership book. Bar-none. May 25, 2005
40 out of 41 found this review helpful
I have read dozens of leadership books over the years including many from both business and military perspectives. This is bar-none the best. I currently have four managers, about thirty staff and multiple projects I am responsible for and this is the book that I repeately reach for because it is a "how to" book. I reach for it to solve problems and I reach for it to teach my staff and managers "how to".
This is the best book on the nuts and bolts of practical leadership. It provides and excellent model and goes on to tell you how to do it. Mr. Malone apporaches the subject like a mechanic; his book explains how the machinery of direct leadership works, then provides you with a set of tools and finally tells you how to use those tools.
I have applied or implemented a number of the authors ideas and my staff and managers love it. Yet I will still be learning from this book for many years to come.
None of this is rocket science. Like the title says, its common sense, but the magic is in the authors clarity of communication combined with your ACTUALLY DOING IT.
I recommend you read it through twice before beginning implementation because parts will be much clearer on the second reading.
If you want to be a leader and you want people to see you as a leader, at any level of an organization, this is the book.
An Interesting Book on Leadership April 17, 2005
30 out of 31 found this review helpful
This book was written for officers in the United States Army. It gives officers an idea of how to manage and develop the soldiers under them. Particularly it gives good advice on how to recognize and deal with certain types of soldiers based on a skill, will, and teamwork scale. To tell the truth, I'm not in the army, but I bought this book to gain some insight into the army's way of managing and developing soldiers. I believe that if you are a businessperson or a teacher, you can learn a lot about how to treat different employees or students. Each person has individual needs that need to be handled in different ways, and I think this is something that this book does a good job of introducing. If you're in the army, you definitely need this, and if you're not, you can still gain a lot of knowledge by reading this.
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