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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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	Foreword	15
	Ken Blanchard on Bill Oncken Jr	19
	Acknowledgments	21
	Introduction	23
1	Setting the Stage for Success	25
	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
2	Are 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."
3	Monkey "Intelligence"	45
	Upward-Leaping Monkeys Are Procrastination Prone
	A Stumbling Block to Becoming a Leader
	"We" Is Killing "Us"
4	Who's Monkey Is It Anyway?	51
	"We" Don't Have a Problem
5	Monkey Mismanagement	57
	Who is Working for Whom?
	Deteriorating Relationships
	The Fate of the Compulsive Monkey Picker-Upper
6	The Conversion from Amateur to Professional Monkey Manager	73
	The Revelation
	Priorities for Discretionary Time
	From Subordinate-Imposed to Discretionary Time
7	How to Keep Monkeys on the Proper Backs	81
	The Plan
	Putting Monkeys on the Proper Backs
	Developing Your Staff
	Creating Good Mental Health
	Transferring the Initiative
8	Monkeys + Freedom = Empowerment	93
	The Manager's Goal
	Outlawing Freedom Level 1
	Outlawing Freedom Level 2
	Coaching Your Staff Up the Oncken Freedom Scale
	Completed Staff Work
9	Six Rules for Care and Feeding of Monkeys and Gorillas	103
	Introduction
Rule 1	Make Sure Your Monkeys and Gorillas Don't Starve to Death!
Rule 2	Determine Your Optimum Monkey/Gorilla Population
Rule 3	The Burden for Feeding Monkeys and Gorillas Must Fall to the Subordinate
Rule 4	Make Sure Progress Is Made on the Vital Monkeys and Gorillas
Rule 5	Avoid Being Misunderstood
Rule 6	Facilitate Instant Dialogue
	Epilogue	153

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