Talking with One Minute Manager: Where the Experts Speak for Themselves
Written by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson
Narrated by Ken Blanchard
3.5/5
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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".
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Ken Blanchard
Ken Blanchard is the coauthor of The One Minute Manager® and fifty other books, including the New York Times business bestsellers Gung Ho! and Raving Fans. His books have combined sales of more than eighteen million copies in more than twenty-seven languages. He is the chief spiritual officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies, a full-service global management training and development company that he and his wife, Dr. Marjorie Blanchard, founded in 1979.
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Reviews for Talking with One Minute Manager
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Succinct. Maybe too simple?
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5If 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. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I 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.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5A 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.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Laughably 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.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I read this over 15 years ago. "What gets rewarded is what gets done." is the one line I remember.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Overly simplistic and trivial. This book, true to its name, could be boiled down to a one minute essay without losing any of the content.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 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.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5An 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.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The 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.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Common-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.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very 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