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Summary: Read this book to get big results
Review: Almost everyone who reads the One Minute Manager loves the book, both for its simplicity and clarity. One minute goal-setting, praisings and reprimands soon abound. Gradually, all of this good communication can begin to tail off.The One Minute Manager process needs to become a new habit and to expand the skills both of the one minute manager and the people who work for her/him. That's where Putting the One Minute Manager to Work comes into play. This excellent sequel to the One Minute Manager provides more guidance on how to combine goal-setting, praisings and reprimands. This is combined in the Price System. Price stands for Pinpoint where performance should be improved, then Record the current performance, Involve the person involved in setting goals and how reviews and coaching will occur, Coach people to improve results, and Evaluate the performance to reinforce the good and replace the not so good. This is basically the classic Skinner model on behavior modification, and it works well. The key limitation of the approach is that it does not go far enough to determine where and how much performance should be improved, learn what is possible, and use best practices to transfer knowledge. In terms of the 2,000 percent solution process, this just covers part of the first two of eight steps. But it does cover what it covers well. If this process improves you from where you are today, by all means use it. If you are already a great communicator and motivator, then you are beyond this book. My guess is that almost everyone in their first managerial role would benefit from this book. Communications are the biggest source of stalled performance in most companies, and this book provides solid information for overcoming that stall. If your company has other stalls, like avoiding the unattractive, disbelief, misconceptions about customers, helplessness, and so forth, you will need additional help. But with improved communications skills, you will be in a good position to attack those stalls as well.
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Summary: Fleshing Out The One Minute Manager's Process
Review: Almost everyone who reads the One Minute Manager loves the book, both for its simplicity and clarity. One minute goal-setting, praisings and reprimands soon abound. Gradually, all of this good communication can begin to tail off. The One Minute Manager process needs to become a new habit and to expand the skills both of the one minute manager and the people who work for her/him. That's where Putting the One Minute Manager to Work comes into play. This excellent sequel to the One Minute Manager provides more guidance on how to combine goal-setting, praisings and reprimands. This is combined in the Price System. Price stands for Pinpoint where performance should be improved, then Record the current performance, Involve the person involved in setting goals and how reviews and coaching will occur, Coach people to improve results, and Evaluate the performance to reinforce the good and replace the not so good. This is basically the classic Skinner model on behavior modification, and it works well. The key limitation of the approach is that it does not go far enough to determine where and how much performance should be improved, learn what is possible, and use best practices to transfer knowledge. In terms of the 2,000 percent solution process, this just covers part of the first two of eight steps. But it does cover what it covers well. If this process improves you from where you are today, by all means use it. If you are already a great communicator and motivator, then you are beyond this book. My guess is that almost everyone in their first managerial role would benefit from this book. Communications are the biggest source of stalled performance in most companies, and this book provides solid information for overcoming that stall. If your company has other stalls, like avoiding the unattractive, disbelief, misconceptions about customers, helplessness, and so forth, you will need additional help. But with improved communications skills, you will be in a good position to attack those stalls as well.
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Summary: Putting The One Minute Manager To Work
Review: An excellent book that focuses on the positive sides of good management and offers solid suggestions to putting management practices to work. This is an especially good "must read" book for those managers who believe in using a hard-line approach to their employees and who are facing the consequences of such tactics, i.e. high turnover, low productivity, etc.
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Summary: Hollywood-style story is not a method.
Review: I have read the author's first book "One Minute Manager" which I reviewed with a cautious tone. The second one is better and somewhat improved, but it is still not a method. If reader think this is what management is all about, he is misled. Manager does not spend all his time looking outside his window wondering... He or she will spend lots of time planning, not just running a floor show. Laterly a group of new thinking for the so-called learning corporation advocates summarizing experience and educating your men. Control is also one of the main tasks manager has a hand on. To be a manager is a lonely job, one has to work hours by himself. The time spent on human interface is what this book was talking about is only a small portion of the job. It is a Hollywood style understanding of management job. It present to the audiance a two-hour long picture but hardly the truth, not mentioning the muti-faces of the story. I modify the title of General Sullivan's book "Hope is not a method" as my line for the summary of this booklet.
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Summary: Read this book to get big results
Review: If you want practical down to earth advice, read this book. You will learn what it takes to be successful. By making small changes that created big results, I am now the manager I always wanted to be.
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Summary: ESSENTIAL SUPPLEMENT TO AVOID "STALLED" THINKING
Review: Like many people, I was enthused by the simple, clear picture presented by THE ONE MINUTE MANAGER of the key management tasks that could allow me to communicate better with others. Then the doubt began. How do I handle tough people? How do I handle promising beginners? And so forth. I think I learned much more from reading PUTTING THE ONE MINUTE MANAGER TO WORK than I did from the ONE MINUTE MANAGER. An expecially good part is the PRICE system that uses measurements to create valuable feedback and motivation for people to improve. I strongly urge you to read this book. If you want to know even more about how to use measurements and feedback to get results that are 20 times better, you owe it to yourself to read THE 2,000 PERCENT SOLUTION. This book is totally consistent with the One Minute Manager books.
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Summary: ESSENTIAL SUPPLEMENT TO AVOID "STALLED" THINKING
Review: Like many people, I was enthused by the simple, clear picture presented by THE ONE MINUTE MANAGER of the key management tasks that could allow me to communicate better with others. Then the doubt began. How do I handle tough people? How do I handle promising beginners? And so forth. I think I learned much more from reading PUTTING THE ONE MINUTE MANAGER TO WORK than I did from the ONE MINUTE MANAGER. An expecially good part is the PRICE system that uses measurements to create valuable feedback and motivation for people to improve. I strongly urge you to read this book. If you want to know even more about how to use measurements and feedback to get results that are 20 times better, you owe it to yourself to read THE 2,000 PERCENT SOLUTION. This book is totally consistent with the One Minute Manager books.
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Summary: It Just Takes A Second
Review: The original One Minute Manager was the very first management book that I read. I am happy to read this sequel and see in detail the implementation of its principles in this short book by authors Kenneth Blanchard Ph.D. and Robert Lorber Ph. D. as they stress the importance of praising (as well as reprimanding) employees which often times gets lost in today's very busied, hurried, bottom-line scrutinizing Corporate culture. Remember to be successful managing employees we must all pay the pay the PRICE: (Pinpoint, Record, Involve, Coach and Evaluate.)
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Summary: It Just Takes A Second
Review: The original One Minute Manager was the very first management book that I read. I am happy to read this sequel and see in detail the implementation of its principles in this short book by authors Kenneth Blanchard Ph.D. and Robert Lorber Ph. D. as they stress the importance of praising (as well as reprimanding) employees which often times gets lost in today's very busied, hurried, bottom-line scrutinizing Corporate culture. Remember to be successful managing employees we must all pay the pay the PRICE: (Pinpoint, Record, Involve, Coach and Evaluate.)
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Summary: Good stuff.
Review: This book is definately informative. It's a good technique, and I like the story approach.
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