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The Leadership Pill: The Missing Ingredient in Motivating People Today
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Sales rank 61,025
Customers rating (based on 43 reviews)
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Now can you become a more successful manager, a stronger team leader, and a motivator who gets the best results from a group? Ken Blanchard and Marc Muchnick's The Leadership Pill provides the answer. In the bestselling tradition of Whale Done! and The One Minute Manager, their entertaining and inspiring new book is a parable about the competition between two leaders with totally different management styles -- a story that reveals the ingredients of truly effective leadership. Consider this tantalizing possibility: What if there were a pill that could actually stimulate the natural powers of the mind and body to provide leadership? In the story, an amazing new pill heightens one leader's powers, but contains the wrong ingredients, stimulating him in an obsessive and shortsighted direction with disastrous results. In contrast, the Effective Leader, working without a pill, proclaims that "only through sustainability can our teams remain motivated and successful." An inspiring and supportive leader, he supplies the right ingredients, earning his team's respect and trust with a blend of integrity, partnership, and affirmation. The hard-won result is a highly motivated team producing consistent top performance and genuine success. Ultimately it is recognized that "leadership for a lifetime" is much easier to digest than a pill for leaders looking for a quick fix. Destined to be a transforming experience for countless readers, The Leadership Pill shows business managers at any level how to apply the right techniques for getting both results and the commitment of their people, even when the pressure to perform is high.
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| Publisher | Free Press | | Release date | 09/2003 | | Availability | Usually ships in 24 hours | | Edition | Hardcover |
| | List price | $21 | | Our price | $14.28 (you save 32.00%) | | Used price | from $0.3 |
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 An Okay Book, Check It Out At Your Library Instead Of Purchasing.
In my humble opinion, while "Leadership Pill" by Ken Blanchard is a decent read, the title is not as enlightening as his other titles (1 Minute Manager, 1 Minute Sales, etc.).
In a nutshell, here is the summary:
Leaders Must Have Four Blends To Be Effective:
1. Integrity - you are what you say you are.
2. Partnership - build relationships with your team members.
3. Affirmation - give genuine praise to others.
4. Perfecting The Blend - get others to the point where they can do projects on their own.
The book is nothing but common sense. If you really care for others, then these blends should come reasonably easy for you. If you do not really care for your team members, then you have a deeper problem and maybe it is time for you to move on!
A brief read. Save your money and check the title out at your local public library.
 Read this book with Prozac
Purchased this after reading other books by Blanchard. Disappointed this time; I thought it was a total waste of time. The author tries hard to have a simile between management style and a pill that cures illness. Very little new material. Hardly any research to backup the claims. Don't waste money on this book.
 If it were only so simple that a pill would do!!
A cute, tongue and cheek book that will entertain the reader. Blanchard and Muchnick rightfully point out that true effective leadership is not about giving orders and driving people. What they point out that so many in business overlook is that positive, effective leadership is all about people and doing the right things to bring about sustained superior performance. When we look at the current failures in the lending industry in 2008, I personally believe that it is the result of ineffective leadership.
Want to know how to be an effective leader that can produce positive results? Sure you do, then pick up this book, spend a couple of hours chuckling and then reflect. No, I am not going to tell you the secrets because then you would have believed you just took the leadership pill and you would think that you do not need to invest some time in a book worth reading.
 Childish and Lame
I have read other books similar to this and always enjoyed them. This book, however is lame at best. I have a hard time believing Ken Blanchard would associate himself with this work. When I read this line "Praise is the easiest way to let people know they are appreciated" I immediately felt disdain. How sad would be the manager that would read this and have an epiphany. This book was childish and 99% of the content unnecessary. The title doesn't even match the content. This should have been titled "You don't need a pill to be a good leader".
Very Good Quick Read!
Excellent book! Ken Blanchard's story telling prowess gives the reader a quick look at some of the differences between being, what some consider, "a good manager" versus being an "effective leader". The lessons taught in the course of the story can be thought of as basic for an experienced professional, but some will find the book helpful in reminding them of effective leadership principles that can be applied fairly quickly in a team environment.
If you're looking for a very quick read on some effective leadership principles in a story book setting, then this is one book I'd recommend.
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