The Hands-Off Manager: How to Mentor People and Allow Them to Be Successful

167 Pages·2012·0.91 MB·English

by  Steve Chandler

THE HANDS - OFF MANAGER
THE HANDS - OFF MANAGER
How to Mentor People
and Allow Them
to Be Successful
STEVEN CHANDLER
best-selling author of 100 Ways to Motivate Others
and DUANE BLACK
Copyright © 2012 by Steve Chandler and Duane Black All rights reserved under
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THE HANDS-OFF MANAGER
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Chandler, Steve, 1944-The hands-off manager : how to mentor people and allow
them to be successful / by Steve Chandler and Duane Black.
p. cm.
Reprint. Originally published in hardback in 2007.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-1-60163223-4 -- ISBN 978-1-60163-592-1 (ebook) 1. Mentoring in
business. 2. Employees--Coaching of. 3. Goal setting in personnel management.
4. Employee motivation. 5. Autonomy (Psychology) I. Black, Duane, 1952-II.
Title.
HF5385.C465 2012
658.3’124--dc23
2011045931
DEDICATION
To George Addair
So much of what we call management consists of
making it difficult for people to work.
—Peter Drucker
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
From Steve Chandler
I acknowledge Byron Katie for putting me through school and opening up the
kindness of the universe that Einstein was puzzling over. Katie’s nine-day school
was the most transformative experience of my adult life, and I recommend that
anyone wondering how to live in peace and harmony check it out at
www.thework.com.
I acknowledge Duane Black for providing in himself the ultimate role model
for successful hands-off management and the full philosophy contained in this
book. I also acknowledge him for applying this system so successfully at SunCor
and getting the results year after year that verify every concept in this book.
I also acknowledge my wife and hands-on manager, Kathy, for professional
and personal rescuing beyond one’s wildest expectations. I want to thank Fred
Knipe, Steve Hardison, Terry Hill, Lindsay Brady, Michael Bassoff, Ken
Wilber, Leonard Cohen, George Martin, Jessica Chandler, Stephanie Chandler,
Mar Chandler, and Bobby Chandler, too.
From Duane Black
I have been fortunate to have many people in my life who have made a
contribution, but George Addair has likely been the biggest influence on me of
anyone I have ever known.
I would also like to acknowledge my friend and coworker Jim Adair, who has
been an incredible friend and sounding board for ideas for nearly 30 years. We
have worked together for so long that we have become like brothers. Another
great friend and discussion partner of many years has been Bill Woodward. Then
there are my favorite authors—Jim Carey, Neale Donald Walsch, David
Hawkins, and Steve Chandler.
I must also acknowledge my wife and family. They are the ones who love you
unconditionally and know you best. They can most easily push the buttons that
help show you what judgments remain inside that you still have the opportunity
to forgive, release, and let go of.
Duane Black acknowledges that the philosophies, opinions, and management
techniques described in this book are his own, and do not necessarily reflect
those of SunCor Development Company, its subsidiary or parent corporations, or
those of SunCor Development Company, its subsidiary or parent corporations, or
its leadership team.
CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 / Taking Your Power Back
Chapter 2 / Redefining Success for Yourself
Chapter 3 / Using the Power of Neutral
Chapter 4 / Using Focus and Intention
Chapter 5 / Questions Leading to Success
Chapter 6 / Inspired Ideas Lead to Success
Chapter 7 / Practice Finding an Inner Vision
Chapter 8 / Reversing Your Process
Chapter 9 / Tuning Your Instrument
Chapter 10 / Becoming Available
Chapter 11 / Letting Go of Judgment
Chapter 12 / Creating Results
Chapter 13 / Waking Up to the Whole System
Chapter 14 / Deepening Your Desires
Chapter 15 / Living in Three Worlds
Chapter 16 / The Hands-Off Manager as Coach
Epilogue
Recommended Reading
Index
About the Authors