Introduction xxii <br>Leading at a Higher Level xxiii <br>Why Did We Write This Book? xxiv <br>How This Book Is Organized xxvi <br> <br> SECTION I: SET YOUR SIGHTS ON THE RIGHT TARGET AND VISION 1<br>Chapter 1 Is Your Organization High Performing? 3 <br> Don Carew, Fay Kandarian, Eunice Parisi-Carew, Jesse Stoner, and Ken Blanchard <br>The Right Target: The Quadruple Bottom Line 4 <br>A High Performing Organization Scores Every Time 9 <br>The HPO SCORES® Model 10 <br>Leadership Is the Engine 12 <br>The HPO SCORES® Quiz: How Does Your Organization Score? 13 <br>HPO SCORES® Quiz 13 <br> Chapter 2 The Power of Vision 17 <br> Jesse Stoner, Ken Blanchard, and Drea Zigarmi <br>The Importance of Vision 17 <br>Effective Versus Ineffective Vision Statements 18 <br>Creating a Vision That Really Works 19 <br>A Compelling Vision Creates a Culture of Greatness 24 <br>Vision Is the Place to Start 24 <br>Vision Can Exist Anywhere in an Organization 26 <br>Make Your Vision a Reality 27 <br>Vision and Leadership 29 <br> <br> SECTION II: TREAT YOUR PEOPLE RIGHT 33<br>Chapter 3 Empowerment Is the Key 35 <br> Alan Randolph and Ken Blanchard <br>What Is Empowerment? 36 <br>The Power of Empowerment 37 <br>How History Blocks Change to Empowerment 37 <br>Tapping People’s Power and Potential: A Real-World Example 39 <br>Learning the Language of Empowerment 40 <br>The Three Keys to Empowerment 41 <br> Chapter 4 SLII®: The Integrating Concept 53 <br> The Founding Associates <br>The Three Skills of an SLII® Leader 54 <br> Goal Setting: The First Skill 54 <br> Diagnosis: The Second Skill 54 <br> Matching: The Third Skill 55 <br>Enthusiastic Beginners Need a Directing Style 58 <br>Disillusioned Learners Need a Coaching Style 59 <br>Capable But Cautious Performers Need a Supporting Style 60 <br>Self-Reliant Achievers Need a Delegating Style 60 <br>Development Level Varies from Goal to Goal and Task to Task 61 <br>Meeting People Where They Are 62 <br>The Importance of Partnering with People 66 <br>Effective Leadership Is a Transformational Journey 67 <br> Chapter 5 Self Leadership: The Power Behind Empowerment 69 <br> Susan Fowler, Ken Blanchard, and Laurence Hawkins <br>Creating an Empowered Workforce 70 <br>Creating Self Leaders Through Individual Learning 71 <br>The Three Skills of a Self Leader 72 <br> Chapter 6 One-on-One Leadership 81 <br> Fred Finch and Ken Blanchard <br>Establishing an Effective Performance Management System 81 <br>One-on-One Leadership and the Performance Management System 85 <br>Partnering as an Informal Performance Management System 100 <br>One-on-Ones: An Insurance Policy for Making One-on-One Leadership Work 101 <br> Chapter 7 Essential Skills for One-on-One Leadership 103 <br> Ken Blanchard and Fred Finch <br>One Minute Goal Setting 103 <br>Areas of Accountability 104 <br>Performance Standards 105 <br>One Minute Praisings 110 <br>One Minute Re-Directs 113 <br>The Fourth Secret of the One Minute Manager 116 <br> Chapter 8 Building Trust 119 <br> Ken Blanchard, Cynthia Olmstead, and Randy Conley <br>The High Cost of Low Trust 119 <br>The Benefits of Trust 120 <br>The Four Elements of Trust 120 <br>Creating a High Trust Environment 121 <br>The Transparency Challenge 124 <br>Repairing Broken Trust 126 <br>The Ripple Effect 128 <br> Chapter 9 Coaching: A Key Competency for Leadership Development 131 <br> Madeleine Homan Blanchard and Linda Miller <br>Definition of Coaching 131 <br>Five Applications of Coaching 132 <br> Application One: Performance Coaching 133 <br> Application Two: Development Coaching 135 <br> Application Three: Career Coaching 137 <br> Application Four: Coaching to Support Learning 140 <br> Application Five: Creating an Internal Coaching Culture 142 <br> Chapter 10 Mentoring: The Key to Life Planning 145 <br> Ken Blanchard and Claire Díaz-Ortiz <br>Obstacles to Beginning a Mentoring Relationship 146 <br>Choosing a Mentoring Partner 147 <br>Essence Versus Form 147 <br>The MENTOR Model: Elements of a Successful Mentoring Partnership 148 <br>Creating a Mentoring Program in Your Organization 151 <br>Tailoring Mentoring to Career Stages 152 <br> Chapter 11 Team Leadership 155 <br> Don Carew, Eunice Parisi-Carew, Lael Good, and Ken Blanchard <br>Why Teams? 156 <br>Obstacles to High Performance 158 <br>An Effective Team Leadership Approach 159 <br>Providing Leadership Behaviors That Match the Team’s Needs 168 <br>Strategies for Higher Team Performance 173 <br>The Power of Teams 176 <br> Chapter 12 Collaboration: Fuel for High Performance 179 <br> Jane Ripley, Eunice Parisi-Carew, and Ken Blanchard <br>Collaboration Is Not Coordination, Cooperation, or Teamwork 179 <br>Creating a Collaborative Framework 181 <br>Collaboration Versus Competition 183 <br>What It Takes to Be Collaborative 184 <br>Collaboration: Fuel for High Performance 189 <br> Chapter 13 Organizational Leadership 191 <br> Ken Blanchard, Jesse Stoner, Don Carew, Eunice Parisi-Carew, and Fay Kandarian <br>Real Life Examples of HPO SCORES® 191 <br>Determining the Appropriate Leadership Style for Your Organization 198 <br>Diagnosing Your Organization’s Development Level 198 <br>Results and Relationships: The Determinants of a High Performing Organization 198 <br>Matching Leadership Style to Your Organization’s Development Stage 201 <br>Applying the Appropriate Leadership Style at Each Development Level 203 <br>The Importance of Diagnosis and Matching 206 <br>A History-Making Organizational Turnaround 207 <br> Chapter 14 Organizational Change: Why People Resist It 209 <br> Pat Zigarmi, Judd Hoekstra, and Ken Blanchard <br>The Importance of Leading Change 209 <br>Why Is Organizational Change So Complicated? 210 <br>When Is Change Necessary? 211 <br>Why Change Gets Derailed or Fails 212 <br>Focus on Leading the Journey 214 <br>Surfacing and Addressing People’s Concerns 215 <br>Different People Are at Different Stages of Concern 223 <br>The Importance of Involving Those Who Are Being Asked to Change 223 <br> Chapter 15 Leading People Through Change 225 <br> Pat Zigarmi and Judd Hoekstra <br>Five Change Leadership Strategies 225 <br>The Importance of Reinforcing the Change 247 <br> Chapter 16 Managing a Successful Cultural Transformation 249 <br> Garry Demarest, Chris Edmonds, and Bob Glaser <br>Gung Ho!: A Starting Point 250 <br>Managing a Successful Cultural Transformation 255 <br>Critical Success Factors for Cultural Transformation 261 <br> <br> SECTION III: TREAT YOUR CUSTOMERS RIGHT 263<br>Chapter 17 Serving Customers at a Higher Level 265 <br> Ken Blanchard, Kathy Cuff, Vicki Halsey, and Jesse Stoner <br>Getting Legendary SCORES from Your Customers 265 <br>Creating Legendary Service 267 <br>Serving Customers at a Higher Level 272 <br>Permitting People to Soar 281 <br>Wallowing in a Duck Pond 282 <br>Giving Your People Wings 282 <br> <br> SECTION IV: HAVE THE RIGHT KIND OF LEADERSHIP 285<br>Chapter 18 Servant Leadership 287 <br> Ken Blanchard, Scott Blanchard, and Drea Zigarmi <br>What Is Servant Leadership? 287 <br>Applying Servant Leadership 290 <br>Great Leaders Encourage People to Bring Their Brains to Work 293 <br>What Kind of Leadership Impacts Performance the Most? 294 <br>Being a Servant Leader Is a Question of the Heart 298 <br>Driven Versus Called Leaders 299 <br>The Plight of the Ego 300 <br>Ego Antidotes 302 <br>What Servant Leaders Do 304 <br>Servant Leadership: A Mandate or a Choice 307 <br> Chapter 19 Determining Your Leadership Point of View 313 <br> Margie Blanchard, Pat Zigarmi, and Ken Blanchard <br>Elements of a Leadership Point of View 314 <br>Developing Your Own Leadership Point of View 323 <br>Become a Higher Level Leader 332 <br> Endnotes 333<br>Acknowledgments 347<br>About the Authors 349<br>Services Available 371<br>Index 375 <br> <br> <p style="margin:0px;"> </p>