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Summary: Simple and indelible. All it takes is just 1 minute!!!
Review: This book is astonishing. Teachings on leadership is truly applicable. Short book and story telling format allows one to read it in 1 minute and apply it right away! Take it to action people! I never thought this book would be helpful but it changed my perspective on managing people. At home or bussiness, this book contains infinite wisdom on how to make people truly happy and enjoy what they do. Whether you are a parent of a single child or an older brother of your family, this book will surely help you to bring your families and friends to happiness and success. "Be strict to yourself and only to yourself and mellow with others around you." Enjoy!!
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Summary: ONE MINUTE MANAGER
Review: If you can't take something directly from THE ONE MINUTE MANAGER to make you a better manager, you can take something from it and modify it. Maybe in reality your company can't run efficiently on the "one-minute" theory. But you could on a "five-minute" or "ten-minute" concept. Even that adjustment would cut down on the wasted prodution during those "costly" meetings.When I first looked at the book, I thought it too small to be efficient. However, this is a case of "good things come in small packages" being real. It's a very interesting, though controversial book.
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Summary: One Minute Manager - Diana
Review: Bought the book for a management study group after having read it several years ago. Excellent tool for new managers. Easy reading in parable format. Lots of follow-up work available by Blanchard and others.
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Summary: 1 Minute Manager
Review: This short, easy to read book by K. Blanchard, is the most informative quick guide to successful managment that I have ever read. The suggestions are valid and they really work!
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Summary: Praise is more Powerful than criticism
Review: I love the simplistic yet important messages the authors project. A worthwhile read. Staff members require direction, support and responsibility... and they/we will surprise.
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Summary: TIMELY AND USEFUL
Review: this book is a good read. i heard about it and i bought it! the price of this book is the best investment i have made since my promotion! i have read it two times already and i learned something new each time. the goal setting was a skill that i lacked. also i was reminded how important praising is to the employee. my skills were enhanced by this book!!!
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Summary: ONE MINUTE WON'T QUITE DO IT!
Review: To the book's credit, there are a few valuable points contained here but that is where the value ends. Having been a business management teacher and counsellor for the best part of my life, and having written a training manual on the subject which is still in use today, I feel comfortable in saying that what is contained in these few pages is not going to make you management material! You may pick up a few tips on how to IMPROVE your skills as a manager, but if you are planning to manage a business, this book certainly won't cut it! One of the key reasons why businesses fail is not solely because of the lack of start up and working capital, it is because owners/managers do not possess sufficient basic business management skills. Those skills do not come from simply reading a book; they come from proper management training and a lifetime of hands-on experience. A future lawyer cannot sit down, read a book, and without any formal education be qualified for a memeber of the bar; nor can a would-be physician with no formal education, read a book and undertake his first operation! Why then, would anyone be so niave or gullible to think that reading an 111 page book would prepare you to be a manager...of anything? Management, especially business management, takes know-how and experience. Believe me, my files are filled with "would-be wanna-be's" and "one minute managers" who thought formal management training was a waste of time and that experience would come in time. Unfortunately, time ran out. The reality of it is, they learned how to make every mistake in the book on their own money, or equally worse, on someone else's money! Now, not only do they not have a business, they are facing a future of financial ruin. There are some excellent books in existence that will help you to improve your management style, providing you have the basics to begin with, so save the money you would have spent on this one and invest in a quality,in-depth book.
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Summary: One Minute Manager, One lifetime of benefits.....
Review: Wonderful book. This has really helped me to perfect my management skills. Easily explained so that anyone can understand. Read it, you wont regret it.
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Summary: this book is a bad joke
Review: This book states was obviously writen by someone who never managed anything in entire life. To sum up the entire book, he believes solely in hands a off management. Unfortunately, this is not realistic and anyone who has managed a sales force understands their sales professionals' need for constant feedback, goals, etc.
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Summary: Simplistic and dull, but often unintentionally funny
Review: If your supervisor frequently puts his hand on your shoulder, looks you sincerely in the eye, and tells you how your work makes him feel, there's a good chance he's read this book. If that's true, you've probably experienced firsthand its destructive effects. Take steps immediately. The only known cure is to threaten to sue your boss for harassment. There is almost nothing to redeem this book. It encourages managers to think of their worst instincts as virtues. The style of writing is simplistic and dull. The dialogue is filled with inane platitudes. There are no insights in the book that shouldn't already have occurred to a third-grader. And the paperback edition, at least, is far too insubstantial to prop open a window. When I first read the book, I supposed that it must have been meant as a parody of shallow pop management books. My supposition was reinforced when I discovered that Dr. Spencer Johnson, one of the authors, has also published "The One Minute Father," a title which I defy you not to misinterpret. If you're forced to read "The One Minute Manager," taking it as a parody will ease the burden. But don't let any aspiring managers in your organization get their hands on it.
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