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    Talking with One Minute Manager: Where the Experts Speak for Themselves
    Talking with One Minute Manager: Where the Experts Speak for Themselves
    Talking with One Minute Manager: Where the Experts Speak for Themselves
    Audiobook34 minutes

    Talking with One Minute Manager: Where the Experts Speak for Themselves

    Written by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson

    Narrated by Ken Blanchard

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    About this audiobook

    Authors Ken Blanchard (a management expert) and Spencer Johnson, a practicing dentist, have sold some 13 million copies of The One Minute Manager, which has been translated into 37 languages. One of Ken Blanchard’s latest books is "Creating High Performance Organizations".

    A Listen USA Audio production.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherListen USA
    Release dateJan 1, 1983
    ISBN9780886840884
    Talking with One Minute Manager: Where the Experts Speak for Themselves
    Author

    Ken Blanchard

    Ken Blanchard, PhD, is one of the most influential leadership experts in the world. He has co-authored 60 books, including Raving Fans and Gung Ho! (with Sheldon Bowles). His groundbreaking works have been translated into over 40 languages and their combined sales total more than 21 million copies. In 2005 he was inducted into Amazon's Hall of Fame as one of the top 25 bestselling authors of all time. The recipient of numerous leadership awards and honors, he is cofounder with his wife, Margie, of The Ken Blanchard Companies®, a leading international training and consulting firm.

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    • 3/5
      Succinct. Maybe too simple?
    • 2/5
      If you care for people they'll work for you - and that's the book.

      Stages - One minute goal setting (gives the name); immediate and in sync praisings; immediate and in sync reprimands.

      The one minute manager does not spend too much time micromanaging, instead only enters at these stages.
    • 4/5
      I really do like these fable business books. They truly work for me. What's impressive with this one is that it's clear that piles and years of research were distilled down to a bare minimum for maximum relayability and efficiency. Certainly I gained a tool or two as I move up the management track in my career.
    • 2/5
      A simple story written in a child-like fashion. The three key points to one minute management could have been summarized into three pages max. You could care less for the characters and their mindless adherence to the author's push of point. Just give me the facts and forget the contrived story. I'd have much more respect for the author if he had done so.
    • 2/5
      Laughably oversimplified advice, for the most part very truthful and common sensical, that I'm sure works spectacularly in a healthy, homogeneous, and fully functional society that I'm having a hard time envisioning in today's world. Written in 1981, the type of managerial relationship portrayed here was already gone, it just hadn't evidenced itself yet. The advice contained within actually works better for dealing with children, specifically your own, when it comes to the much-stressed aspect of "touch" and "physical contact," otherwise the manager may be in for one of a dozen potential future lawsuits that I see arising from implementing some of the advice.
    • 4/5
      I read this over 15 years ago. "What gets rewarded is what gets done." is the one line I remember.
    • 1/5
      Overly simplistic and trivial. This book, true to its name, could be boiled down to a one minute essay without losing any of the content.
    • 4/5
      The One Minute Manager briefly presents the techniques and the psychology behind an effective method for managing, leading and empowering others through the story of an eager young man looking for the secret to success. After searching high and low for the elusive "effective manager," the young man finally hears of a manager who really seems to know what he is doing. The manager is nicknamed "The One Minute Manager." There are three key components to the man's management technique: First, set one minute goals with an individual; second, provide one minute praisings to the individual when their performance moves towards the desired goal; and third, respond with one minute reprimands when performance does not meet or move toward goals. For a book that can be read in about two hours, there are plenty of practical applications where The One Minute Manager's recommended management technique can be practiced and developed.
    • 3/5
      An extremely quick read about applying behaviorism to management. I think the title of this approach is highly sensational, it's not really about saving time but rather about effective behavior change. The format of the book was also neat at first, but overall felt like the authors were stacking the deck by creating fictional characters that loved the method. I enjoyed the 'plaques' in the book, and will keep them handy, but overall I'm not convinced that this method would work. I think employees would also be able to connect the dots to the roots of this method in behaviorism and feel used, like the pigeon getting grain.
    • 3/5
      The One Minute Manager is a simple story teaching three powerful tools: 1) Let those you manage know what behavior is expected, 2) Praise them for doing the right behavior (or the approximate correct behavior to help them eventually achieve the final desired behavior), and 3) Give them immediate feedback when they do the wrong behavior. These three tools work in business, with family, and in community groups. It works well with adults and children. This book is overly simplistic, but it is meant to be so in order to clearly teach the principles. Applying the principles takes a bit more practice.
    • 4/5
      Common-sense advice, but a pretty easy read.The "Catch People Doing Something Right" as it compares to teaching a whale to jump out of the water was a pretty good metaphor.Start by putting the hoop in the water and feed the whale based on them going through the hoop. And then slowly raise the hoop until it's out of the water and they have to jump.
    • 4/5
      Very very quick read. A classic. Very simple to understand. Great for communication and goal setting. You can incorporate this mindset into your management right away. Highly recommend