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Title: The One Minute Manager by KENNETH BLANCHARD, SPENCER MD JOHNSON ISBN: 0-7393-0767-3 Publisher: RH Audio Assets Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.11 (96 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The One Minute Manager
Comment: I have pushed myself through countless management books in various U.S. Navy leadership and civilian management courses. One Minute Manager was a required textbook for a college communication course. I initially thought that the little book with the big print would be a waste of time. I previewed it in a bookstore over coffee and nearly finished it before the coffee. It reads incredibly quick and unfolds a strategy so simple and straightforward that the reader wonders why anyone would behave any differently. I wanted to go back in time and slip it into half a dozen bosses' in boxes. Not since Strunk and White's "Element's of Style" have I encountered such concise, natural-feeling instruction on things we use everyday. This isn't just big business either - I'm seeing improvements with my four and five year old boys as well. The look of accomplishment on their faces tells me that these ideas can work anywhere! Required: a leader, communication, confidence, pride and praise.
Rating: 5
Summary: Even More Valuable Now
Comment: I read this book almost immediately after it was first published more than 20 years ago and recently re-read it, curious to learn how well it has held up over the years. In fact, I hold it in higher regard now than I did before because Blanchard and Johnson focus on certain core principles which (if anything) are more relevant today than ever before. Specifically, they offer an allegory in which they use the metaphor of a single minute to suggest how to set goals, praise achievers, and reprimand non-achievers within a brief period of time. It is probably human nature to over-explain. (How often have you asked someone for the correct time and received an explanation of how a watch works?) I agree with Blanchard and Johnson that much of our precious time is wasted during interaction which is out of focus. We waste others' time. They waste ours. Group meetings are unproductive. One-on-one conversations fail to achieve their desired objectives. We also waste time when thinking about what we do and how we do it, about what others do and how they do it, and about unsatisfactory results when working with others.
Blanchard and Johnson draw heavily upon their extensive research in medicine and the behavioral sciences. What they share in this book is organized within 16 brief chapters. In the first, they introduce a "bright young man" who is searching for an effective manager from whom he can learn how to become one himself. In the last, the young man (who by then had become a One Minute Manager) is about to share with a young women the same "gift" which he had previously received from others. "I will make only one request of you." Blanchard and Johnson make the same request of those who read this book.
For whom will The One Minute Manager be most valuable? Good question. My initial response is to recommend it to those who want to increase their organization's productivity and profits as well as their own prosperity. In other words, to almost everyone. In fact, my opinion is that many of them (for whatever reasons) will not be receptive. Why? Perhaps they reject any ideas presented within an allegory. Or perhaps they strongly disagree with Blanchard and Johnson about what can be accomplished in only a minute.
I think it is a thoughtful. well-written, immensely practical book. Just as in my review of Spencer Johnson's The One Minute Sales Person I recommended that sales managers provide a copy of it to each new salesperson, I now strongly recommend that management supervisors provide a copy of The One Minute Manager to anyone for whom they become responsible. I also think that senior-level executives would be well-advised to re-read both books from time to time. Dust and rust do accumulate, don't they?
Rating: 5
Summary: Just A Minute
Comment: The ideas in One Minute Manager are very effective for anyone who feels stretched to the limit by the daily demands of modern business. The advice is both simple and to the point so it means less time analyzing the lesson and more time implementing tips that can improve your overall performance. I highly recommend this book to seasoned managers as well as those who aspire to join the ranks of management.
Rat Race Relaxer: Your Potential & The Maze of Life by JoAnna Carey is another great book for companies to share with employees because it offers entertaining stories and goal oriented advice about improving your workplace and your life.
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Title: Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life by Spencer Johnson, Kenneth H. Blanchard ISBN: 0399144463 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Leadership and the One Minute Manager : Increasing Effectiveness Through Situational Leadership by Ken Blanchard, Patricia Zigarmi ISBN: 0688039693 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 06 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey ISBN: 0671708635 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 15 September, 1990 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Putting the One Minute Manager to Work by Robert Lorber, Kenneth H. Blanchard ISBN: 0425104257 Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc. Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey by William, Jr. Oncken, Hal Burrows, Kenneth H. Blanchard ISBN: 0688103804 Publisher: Quill Pub. Date: January, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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