''The One Minute Manager'' is a short book by
Ken Blanchard
Kenneth Hartley Blanchard (born May 6, 1939) is an American author, business consultant and motivational speaker. His writing career includes 60+ published books, most of which are co-authored books. His most successful book, ''The One Minute Man ...
and
Spencer Johnson. The brief volume tells a story, recounting three techniques of an effective
manager
Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government body. It is the art and science of managing resources of the business.
Management includes the activities ...
: one minute
goals
A goal is an objective that a person or a system plans or intends to achieve.
Goal may also refer to:
Sport
* Goal (sports), a method of scoring in many sports, or the physical structure or area where scoring occurs
** Goals, the goal frame in ...
, one minute
praisings, and one minute
reprimand
A reprimand is a severe, formal or official reproof. Reprimanding takes in different forms in different legal systems. A reprimand in custody may be a formal legal action issued by a government agency or professional governing board (e.g. medical ...
s. Each of these takes only a minute but is purportedly of lasting benefit. Shortly after publication the book became a ''New York Times'' bestseller. ''The One Minute Manager'' has sold 15 million copies and been translated into 47 languages.
Content
If you were the manager of a company and given a minute, what would you do? In the story ''The One Minute Manager'', describe a motivated young man is trying to find an effective manager. But after several searches, the results were always empty and disappointing. One day, he heard about a manager known as ''The One Minute Manager'', and he visited the "one-minute manager" with suspicion, and finally realized that the true meaning of management comes from three secret:
Sequels
The book was followed by a sequel, ''Leadership and the One Minute Manager: Increasing Effectiveness Through Situational Leadership Ⅱ'', by Ken Blanchard, Patricia Zigarmi and Drea Zigarmi, which laid out Blanchard's
SLII® concept.
New Edition
An updated edition of the book, ''The New One Minute Manager'', was published in 2015. In the new edition, the third technique, the one minute reprimand, was changed to the one minute redirect.
Repercussions
Criticism and controversies
The concept has been called a
management fad
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The term is subjective and tends to be used in a pejorative sense, as it implies that such a change is being implemented ...
, and derivative of
management by objectives Management by objectives (MBO), also known as management by planning (MBP), was first popularized by Peter Drucker in his 1954 book ''The Practice of Management''.Drucker, P., ''The Practice of Management'', Harper, New York, 1954; Heinemann, London ...
, itself derived from the business planning literature.
One critic called it "the executive equivalent of paper-training your dog."In 2001 the ''Wall Street Journal'' ran an article noting that ''The One Minute Manager'' bore a resemblance to an article written by Blanchard's former colleague, Arthur Elliot Carlisle. Carlisle's allegations of plagiarism were never proven.
Praise
''The One Minute Manager'' has been widely praised for its universal appeal and for reducing esoteric management theory into simple, actionable techniques. ''Time'' magazine cited it as one of the 25 Most Influential Business Management Books.
References
External links
kenblanchard.com- homepage of ''The Ken Blanchard Companies''
Blanchard's Situational Leadership II ModelThe-One-Minute-Manager.pdf
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Business books
1982 non-fiction books
Business fables
William Morrow and Company books
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