The One Minute Leader
52 Weeks to Success
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Week 1 of 52
Lead from the Front
Leaders lead. Managers manage. There is a difference. Leaders get out and secure a personal buy in from their followers by creating interest in their project, activity or mission.
One of the easiest avenues to communicate this is from the front by motivating through words, physiology and tonality that are relevant and meaningful to the follower. Leaders communicate best when they use what their followers are interested in most - the greater the interest, the greater the common connection.
Example, if a follower’s number one motivational value is trust, then the leader will communicate and establish rules along trust lines.
Specifically, “The trust of the people in the leader[s] reflects the confidence of the leader[s] in the people,” Paulo Freire, Brazilian Educator. A leader can’t talk about trust when he or she is caught with his or her hand in the safe. When trust is communicated as a common tangible value, is supported by the leader’s actions, plus organizational mission, objectives and rules wonders by followers will soon ensue.
Remember, followers will either line up behind you and the organization or desert you and the organization based on your style, objectives and methods.
In leading, which means getting others to do what you want by being seen, heard, moving, known and respected at the front, could you not get those around you to line up and follow you to another great day by humorously applying an axiom of Murphy’s Law: find a parade already in process and get at the front?
Now, could you not reframe the meaning of your actions to match the organizational parade already in process and lead from the front today, each day and every day?
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About the Book
The reason for The One Minute Leader is There is a difference between a leader and a manager. I found there is plenty of managerial training But on Leadership Too much is said Too little is read And leadership is almost dead That’s why it is important for this book to be read Thus the birth of the one minute approach to applied leadership. Voila, The One Minute Leader: 52 Weeks to Success was written: A dynamic, short, less is more, one liner approach about leadership and organizational success. If you are to read only one book in order to apply and achieve results immediately after your first use and are looking for a one minute approach to leadership, organizational development, problem solving, and a way to save your organization time and money, The One Minute Leader is the book to read.
About the Author
Dr. Michael Nichols is innovative, insightful and informative on leadership and PTSD. He retired from the US Navy as a Lieutenant Commander and from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). His peers and superiors said, "He is twenty years ahead of his time!"
At Marine Corps Base,
His published works include: Communicate: through the Windows of the Mind, the “Four Key Elements of a Successful Institutional Intervention,” Playing In the Zone Made Easy, When Time Doesn’t Heal, and The One Minute Leader: 52 Weeks to Success.
The One Minute Leader is the development of 32 years of research, experience, finding a need and meeting it.
In 1986, while assigned to the Headquarters Staff at Naval Air Station,
Exit 20 years ... he is now working for CDCR and attending Executive Staff Meetings. Again he thought, “How can I make the greatest contribution?” He remembered from attending the 2004 California Performance Review Hearings, there was a distinct 28 year void in leadership training. Voila, he found the need and created The One Minute Leader.