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Summary: You have got to be kidding Ken!!
Review: Another Blanchard marketing hype rip-off. If Ken and Margret are so great at making appologies they need to send me an appology for wasting my money by buying their book and the 20 minutes it took to read it. Like another reviewer said, they took 10 pages of pretty easy half baked ideas and stretched it into 107 pages to make a sale.Margret pls send me an appology!
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Summary: A Major Disapointment
Review: As a professor of business ethics and management I was very encouraged when I came across Blanchard's latest book. Managers are often faced with situations where they do make the wrong decisions due to poor judgement or lack of proper data; This will never change. But on the other hand how they handle these situations after the fact often becomes a matter of ethics (and good sound management). A key tool in these situations is an apology (in all of its various forms). To bad Blanchard took the very critical and complex tool of the apology and made it into a trivial "pop-science". Making material readable is very important, but making it trival is totally unacceptable and does a tremendous disservice to the reader and the material.
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Summary: A Major Disapointment
Review: As a professor of business ethics and management I was very encouraged when I came across Blanchard's latest book. Managers are often faced with situations where they do make the wrong decisions due to poor judgement or lack of proper data; This will never change. But on the other hand how they handle these situations after the fact often becomes a matter of ethics (and good sound management). A key tool in these situations is an apology (in all of its various forms). To bad Blanchard took the very critical and complex tool of the apology and made it into a trivial "pop-science". Making material readable is very important, but making it trival is totally unacceptable and does a tremendous disservice to the reader and the material.
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Summary: small book, big message
Review: At first I wondered if there couls be any substance in such a small book. But when I read it, I realized you don't have to go on for 400 pages to get the point across. Although I'm not sure that every bad relationship could be fixed by an apology, taking the steps suggested in the book sure can't hurt. Plus, knowing you might have to apologize later makes you think about what you're doing NOW.
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Summary: Jonathan Livingston Apology
Review: Back in the `70s, there was the simple saga of the Seagull who soared. This reminds me of that. The Homily flavour also resonates with Fr. Andrew M. Greeley's *Summer at the Lake.* OMA is a parable of pride preventing acknowledgement of error, and intervention of the One Minute Manager with RULES on the why and how of a proper apology. This is one of those Books of Life Concepts that one will have to read several times in order to fully "get it" and incorporate into one's life. And, in the Forest Gump Chocolate Box Simile Department, Blanchard opines that life is also like the game of Monopoly - at the end, it all goes back into the box: "No matter how you push and shove for money, recognition, power, prestige, and possessions, when life is over, everything goes back into the box." Reviewed by TundraVision, Amazon Reviewer
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Summary: OK..... so where is the value in this book?
Review: Books like this are a major frustration. They promise so much but deliver so little. If the authors spent as much time on content as they did on being slick and cute this book might be worth its price, but sadly they didn't. Books do not have to be long and complex to have significant value, but I feel totally cheated when they take a couple pages of real information and work hard to stretch it out to the required number of pages in order to make a sale. Shame on the authors for producing it and shame on the publishers for letting them get away with it. Maybe a competent literary agent would have prevented this from happening. I predict this book will be in the bargain bin and quickly forgotten before the authors collect their first check.
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Summary: Don't waste your money.
Review: Every mature adult knows how to apologize and knows the positive impact that it can have. They do not need Ken and Margret's simple little trite book. Save your money.
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Summary: Something we all need to remember
Review: How often do we just say or hear "I'm sorry" followed by excuses and fingerpointing...and nothing changes? If everyone read The One Minute Apology, useless, meaningless apologies would be a thing of the past. I found the story in the book just as compelling as the message-I wanted to know what happened next, and along the way there were valuable ideas about how to make apologies meaningful to both the giver and the receiver. A rare combination...a good story with a better message utterly lacking in the preachiness inherent in so many self-improvement books. Once the reader gets past the idea that they are flawless and faultless, they can genuinely help themselves and others grow in honesty, integrity, and humility.
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Summary: Apologize To Us All
Review: I got half way through this little book and I could not go any longer. Blanchard seems to have a buddy system when he writes his books. In this silly book he enlists his literary agent. Hahahah What a joke!!! Books like this are all about marketing, so Mr. Blanchard do us all a favor and say you are sorry for writing this little book.
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Summary: A Bit Much
Review: I have enjoyed reading the One Minute Manager series of books and cut my teeth on Ken Blanchard's situational management style in undergraduate school. That said, some of these stories abecoming a bit cliche. Blanchard does a good job of illustrating how an apology is not effective unless it is coupled with sincere change. The current business environment can use all the ethical advice it can get, so I gave this 4 stars for that. This book is ideal to pass around to co-workers and subordinates that do not normally read and need to receive printed advice in small doses. Serious scholars of management philosophy would be better suited to go elsewhere. On the plus side, you could easily read this book in the bookstore while waiting for your son to pick out a CD.
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