The One Minute Manager Author: Kenneth Blanchard | Language: English | ISBN:
0425098478 | Format: PDF
The One Minute Manager Description
About the Author
Kenneth Blanchard, Ph.D., is one of the most recognizable names in American business today. His
One Minute Manager® Library has sold over nine million copies worldwide. He is also an award-winning speaker and business consultant.
Spencer Johnson, M.D., is the author of the runaway hit,
Who Moved My Cheese?. Eleven million of his books are in print in 26 different languages.
From AudioFile
The One-Minute Manager, adapted from Blanchard's classic book which sold more than a million copies, is a parable about a young man in search of world-class management skills. The authors' message is so simple it's brilliant: a "One-Minute Manager" achieves positive results with a minimum of time and effort by being communicative and consistent. Areas covered include goal-setting, motivating, training, praising and even reprimanding employees. Key points are effectively recapped by co-author Johnson at the end of the tape. D.M.G. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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- Paperback: 111 pages
- Publisher: Berkley Trade; Reissue edition (July 15, 1986)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0425098478
- ISBN-13: 978-0425098479
- Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
Kenneth Blanchard's "The One Minute Manager" is a short book that should have either been much shorter or much longer. The longer version would have been supported with research and case studies to back up Blanchard's claims that the techniques are effective. For readers who don't need or want the supporting evidence, here is what the shorter version would look like:
1) Good managers are not micromanagers; they expect employees to take initiative and solve their own problems.
2) Good managers set goals for their employees that are brief and have clear performance standards and expectations.
3) Good managers look for opportunities to praise their employees because self-confident employees are happier and more productive. Employees learn to internalize praise.
4) Good managers are also quick and clear in providing feedback when something goes wrong. Reprimands are more effective when it is understood that managers think highly of their employees. (Presumably, if the "One-Minute Reprimands" happen too often, the employee will no longer work for the One-Minute Manager, so that ending reprimands with statements of the employee's value, as suggested, will always be sincere.)
That's about it.
All this is probably good advice. One of the bosses whose management style I most admired and who inspired me to a high level of performance was very much like the One Minute Manager in the book. I rarely saw him, but when I did, it was clear that he had been paying attention and that he valued my work.
But the storytelling format of the book--it's told by a naive young narrator who interviews the one-minute manager and his employees--draws a couple of pages of material out into a hundred page book.
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