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Summary: Role Model What You Want
Review: If you can't role model, you certainly can't expect others to participate in your surpassing your responsibiities.This is a small book, with a big message "Demonstrate that you are listening to each person who you want to influence to perform, on your behalf." In one minute do you set a goal that all participants understand and voluntarily follow? Do you also praise others in one minute? What about reprimands - yes, one minute? When you've mastered this you don't feel compelled to press against anyone's mind. You also expand what Napoleon Hill called the benefit of your mastermind.
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Summary: Keeping things simple
Review: With everyone stretched to the limit in today's workforce, these ideas are more effective than ever. Managers just do not have the time they used to and by keeping things simple and to the point we can get more done in the already too short day. I highly recommend anyone who manages people or is thinking of being in management to read this book. Also check out Rat Race Relaxer: Your Potential & The Maze of Life.
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Summary: Good Advice for Today's Leader
Review: 'The One Minute Manager', written in 1981 by highly-regarded author and consultant Kenneth H. Blanchard and by Spencer Johnson, is an excellent book on improving management effectiveness and employee productivity. And, while increased 'knowledge worker' efficiency may have made it simple enough in the 80s and early 90s for companies to simply dismiss below-average workers (they didn't require replacing, as fewer total knowledge workers were required to perform the same tasks as before), the 21st century challenge will be to optimize the performance of employees already in the organization, as profitable businesses will likely need to replace dismissed workers. This will involve improved management practices, such as the ones espoused in this book. 'One Minute Manager' is very short (can be read in less than one hour), yet has the potential to greatly improve management efficiency. The book discusses three 'secrets' -- one minute goals, one minute praising, and one minute reprimands. To briefly summarize, the theory espoused in the book is for the manager to set one-page goals with each employee for the top 20% of tasks which, according to Pareto, account for 80% of the productivity of the employee. Next, the manager follows up with either immediate one minute praise or an immediate behavior-based (rather than personal) one minute reprimand. The praise is designed to focus the employee behavior toward continuous improvement. As such, a less-capable employee (typically a newer one) would receive praise for lesser accomplishments than would a more seasoned one. The reprimand is to reinforce the goals of the organization. The theories made a lot of sense. They espouse the true vision of 'leadership', which is to guide the organization in a specific direction, toward specific goals and achievement. I recommend this book to anyone interested in leadership or effectiveness.
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Summary: Ken Blanchard hits another home run
Review: I had put off reading this book because of the idea that management can't occur in one minute. Wrong. While it takes much longer to become a good manager, the tiny minutes in a day gives us ample opportunity to manage people for positive results. This book isn't rocket science. It's written in Ken Blanchard's sensible, easy to read parable format that makes it as much fun to read as it is insightful. Managers, whether aspiring, new or old-hands will find something that challenges them to be better working with their people. I suggest you make it required reading for your management staff.
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Summary: Found very hard to put down
Review: This is one of the best books I have read. It was really inspiring. The way the book is written is excellent. It was like reading a thriller, hard to put down and there was anticipation what would happen next. At the same time very important and practical ideas were presented on how to get the most done from your team with a touch of human element.
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Summary: One Minute Manager
Review: This is an excellent book for teaching simple communications
in a typical business environment. The main theme is to provide
meaningful communication immediately when an employee act is to
be praised or criticized. The idea is to have an immediate
association between the praise or blame so that much time
does not pass between your recognition of the critical behavior
and the quick assessment and communication of it. In rapid
succession, the author poses many typical scenarios and the optimal response to the observed behaviors . This book can help
you to assess critical behaviors so that corrective action can
be taken at a point in time when you have the most control.
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Summary: Buy Used
Review: This book outlines precisely 3 principles: One Minute Goal Setting, One Minute Praises, One Minute Reprimands. People, like whales, pigeons, and dogs, will learn to achieve goals consistently when these principles are applied properly. The tone of this book could be updated. The first few pages grated on me a bit, as the dialog seemed forced and contrived. The pagination is also odd, with some pages containing less than half as much text as others. A good read to get some good basics before reading other management material.
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Summary: A Short Lesson In How To Manage People...
Review: This is a very effective message in managing and communicating with people under your charge. It can be applied in any situation whether military or civilian. It's more effectve when used in a small group in my opinion. You can see the one minute manager technique in action simply by watching shows like "ST: Next Generation". Capt. Picard uses it consistantly throughout the series when reprimanding Worf or Data. It's a short book and can be finished in one sitting. I remember to always give praise and encouragement after reprimanding someone. Works everytime!!
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Summary: Simplistic one-size-fits all advice. Don't bother.
Review: Don't bother with this book that offers essentially one tip for dealing with all management challenges. Maybe that's all you can fit into one minute ...
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Summary: Excellent and Simple Advice
Review: Listen, look people in the eye, give clear concise guidance, give negative feedback immediately. Sounds pretty simple, and it is. It's also excellent management advice.
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