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Summary: Good but not the best...
Review: Based on the reviews here I think I was expecting more than I got. A previous reviewer mentioned that this was one of the funniest books he had ever read... I didn't find it funny or enlightening. I think it was a good book and worth what I paid for it, that's it.
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Summary: Good but not the best...
Review: Based on the reviews here I think I was expecting more than I got. A previous reviewer mentioned that this was one of the funniest books he had ever read... I didn't find it funny or enlightening. I think it was a good book and worth what I paid for it, that's it.
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Summary: Absolutely Fantastic! Will kickstart your career
Review: Buy the book or better yet listen to the tape then watch the change in your attitude Monday morning. A good meter for a manager to know if he has too many monkeys is by comparing e-mail inbaskets, since that is where so many of us spend much of our time nowadays. My own is usually over 300 items while my staff's is usually under 20. I thought about each of these as a monkey and then also thought back over all the one-on-one conversations I had had with each of them (7 people). In most cases, it was usually left that I would do something next, and that fits in perfectly with this book. True to the book and the tape, I spend countless hours to catch up, only to fall further behind. The book is pretty good, but the tape is far superior. There are two tapes; the first one is a speech by Bill Oncken Jr, and he is just a fantastic story-teller. He really brings to life the story of the manager whose staff is all waiting on him, the stress he feels, and the revelation that hits him when he sees them golfing when he goes in on the weekend. Of course this is all written before the days of e-mail, but it still works. You can feel the energy in his voice rising as he turns his life around and puts all the monkeys back where they belong, and the final line where he gets the whole audience to shout "HOW'S IT GOING?!" to the new monkey-owner is a great ending. The second tape is Ken Blanchard delivering the rest of the material, and while he's entertaining, it's not nearly as good as Oncken's "day-in-the-life" tale. He ties the material back to the One-Minute Manager, and touches on some psychological issues. They also stress that this isn't just an exercise in delegating and taking work off the manager's hand, it is just as important as a developmental process for the subordinate. As a side-note, it's interesting that there is no mention anywhere in the book of Spencer Johnson, the co-author of the original book The One Minute Manager, who invented the system. In all the author biographies and Thank-You's, he is never mentioned, I wonder if he and Blanchard had a parting of company. And the book itself makes almost no mention at all about what One-Minute Manager is all about, it seems just a way to put a popular title to a book about monkey management,
although I think this monkey manual is the better book.
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Summary: Absolutely Fantastic! Will kickstart your career
Review: Give them this book. I have read it four times and given away about 20 copies to bosses, colleagues, employees, or clients who were having trouble delegating, and it has helped in most cases. It is a thin book that is easy to read and somewhat inspiring.
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Summary: Do you or your boss have trouble with delegation?
Review: Give them this book. I have read it four times and given away about 20 copies to bosses, colleagues, employees, or clients who were having trouble delegating, and it has helped in most cases. It is a thin book that is easy to read and somewhat inspiring.
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Summary: Great Advise!
Review: Great advise to new managers. I really could relate to the story. Both helpful and validating.
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Summary: Best idea ever on how to reverse "upward delegation!"
Review: I do leadership seminars for managers called "Survival Tactics for the 21st Century Jungle," and find that many of you are suffering from self inflicted wounds when it comes to taking on the "problems" of your team. Learn how to send those "help-me's" back to their rightful owner, increase productivity, and GET YOUR LIFE BACK with this wonderful hilarious book. (PS the tape is one of the best on the planet - very funny!)
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Summary: Buy This Book!
Review: I laughed so hard reading this book...and then I straightened up and flew right. I know my staff thought, "what got into her?" as I tossed the monkeys back to their rightful owners. If you are a too-helpful business owner, this book is for you! I wish I had read it ten years ago, and my profound thanks to the authors. Mary Baechler, CEO, The Baby Jogger Company
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Summary: very good
Review: I laught while reading this very instructive book. I strongly recommend it to you.
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Summary: GET YOUR ORGANIZATION OFF YOUR BACK
Review: In my role as advisor to CEOs, I find one of their major problems is taking on all of the decision-making in their companies. This is a waste of time for them and their organizations. Many of the CEOs know that they need to change in this area, but do not know what to do . "The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey " is just the advice they need. By taking on too much, one person can become a worse stranglehold on an organization's progress than a whole bureaucracy is. For great advice on how to find your other bad habits as a manager or executive, and how to improve them to get more done in less time, and with less strain, you should read "The 2,000 Percent Solution". That book shows you how to overcome the 7 most common bad habits that executives and organizations have, and shows you a master process to being much more effective in your most important activities.
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