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Monkey Business : Are You Controlling Events or Are Events Controlling You?
William Oncken III

1890009245
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Format: Hardcover, 168pp.
ISBN: 1890009245
Publisher: Executive Excellence
Pub. Date: October 2000

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Are you plagued by reverse delegation? Are the assignments others should be performing piling up on your desk? Sadly, many managers find themselves running out of time while their employees are running out of work. Monkey Business is written to help hopelessly overwhelmed managers get these monkeys off their backs and return them into the hands of those they hire.

Monkey Business contains valuable information on how managers can:

  • Train employees to become self-reliant rather than boss-reliant
  • Free up time for personal and professional relationships
  • Attend properly to planning, organizing, and leadership—making sure things stay on time, on track, and under budget
  • Confront the belief that "If you want something done right, you've got to do it yourself"



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Bill Oncken knows what happens in the real world when real people try to manage other real people
—The Honorable John Paul Woodley, Jr., Secretary of Natural Resources, The Commonwealth of Virginia


The concepts and techniques contained in Monkey Business form the foundations of my own managerial success.
—William Reeder, Vice President and General Manager, Washington Performing Arts Society


Monkey Business is a unique analysis of today's management and leadership dilemmas and their simple but effective solutions.
—Maj. F. Andy Messing, Jr. USAR Special Forces (Ret.); Executive Director, National Defense Council
 
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William Oncken III is president of The William Oncken Corporation, a management consulting firm founded by his father in 1960. The William Oncken Corporation offers training in a unique philosophical approach to real-world organizational problems. Oncken received his BA from Texas A&M and his MBA from Southern Methodist University. He is the author of Managing Management Time (Prentice Hall) and The One-Minute Manager Meets the Monkey (Morrow).

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Table of Contents
Foreword15
Ken Blanchard on Bill Oncken Jr19
Acknowledgments21
Introduction23
1Setting the Stage for Success25
Your Role
Where Does Your Time Go?
The Dilemmas
Your Monkey Strategy in a Nutshell
Becoming Monkey Savvy
What Is Subordinate-Imposed Time?
The Oncken Freedom Scale
2Are You a Magnet for Monkeys?35
Situation 1"Let Me Think It Over, and I'll Let You Know."
Situation 2"Send Me a Memo on That"
Situation 3"Just Let Me Know How I Can Help."
3Monkey "Intelligence"45
Upward-Leaping Monkeys Are Procrastination Prone
A Stumbling Block to Becoming a Leader
"We" Is Killing "Us"
4Who's Monkey Is It Anyway?51
"We" Don't Have a Problem
5Monkey Mismanagement57
Who is Working for Whom?
Deteriorating Relationships
The Fate of the Compulsive Monkey Picker-Upper
6The Conversion from Amateur to Professional Monkey Manager73
The Revelation
Priorities for Discretionary Time
From Subordinate-Imposed to Discretionary Time
7How to Keep Monkeys on the Proper Backs81
The Plan
Putting Monkeys on the Proper Backs
Developing Your Staff
Creating Good Mental Health
Transferring the Initiative
8Monkeys + Freedom = Empowerment93
The Manager's Goal
Outlawing Freedom Level 1
Outlawing Freedom Level 2
Coaching Your Staff Up the Oncken Freedom Scale
Completed Staff Work
9Six Rules for Care and Feeding of Monkeys and Gorillas103
Introduction
Rule 1Make Sure Your Monkeys and Gorillas Don't Starve to Death!
Rule 2Determine Your Optimum Monkey/Gorilla Population
Rule 3The Burden for Feeding Monkeys and Gorillas Must Fall to the Subordinate
Rule 4Make Sure Progress Is Made on the Vital Monkeys and Gorillas
Rule 5Avoid Being Misunderstood
Rule 6Facilitate Instant Dialogue
Epilogue153


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