The New One Minute Manager
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A revised edition of the timeless business classic—updated to help today’s readers succeed more quickly in a rapidly changing world.
For decades, The One Minute Manager® has helped millions achieve more successful professional and personal lives. While the principles it lays out are timeless, our world has changed drastically since the book’s publication. The exponential rise of technology, global flattening of markets, instant communication, and pressures on corporate workforces to do more with less—including resources, funding, and staff—have all revolutionized the world in which we live and work.
Now, Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson have updated The One Minute Manger to introduce the book’s powerful, important lessons to a new generation. In their concise, easy-to-read story, they teach readers three very practical secrets about leading others—and explain why these techniques continue to work so well.
As compelling today as it was thirty years ago, this classic parable of a young man looking for an effective manager is more relevant and useful than ever.
Editor's Note
Concise & rewarding…
This revised classic will improve your relationships and increase your team’s productivity. Provides concise and actionable advice on how to set achievable goals and foster open communication.
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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Reviews for The New One Minute Manager
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5i loved it because the authors gave us a system to try out and evaluate its efficiency in real life + it was short and cut directly to main ideas
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The book is helpful and practical. I like it a lot.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I enjoyed reading this. I am going to apply this after resuming my duty. Until then i will start to set one minute goal how to apply this in the retail store i am working.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5great book. simple but deep understanding about manager and teamwork in professional life
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Good book. I encourage that you add this on your reading lists
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Quite an easy read with practical concepts and ideas. Can't wait to test out within my business and family.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5summarized and very useful
Use of simple English
Enjoyed it - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Changes the perspective about how we think about people and their behaviors
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great Book for upcoming managers in their field and for effective home management.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5This book doesn’t let me get past Chapter 1 in Scribd
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very informative, great book for new supervisors, team leads and managers. You can also use this concept in your home life. I recommend this book.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Good and easy to apply techniques. I liked it
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I enjoyed it and I learnt something out of it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very good read for learning how to manage people. Definitely recommended.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Precise and good work. Love to apply it everyday and everywhere
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent and enjoyable read, really helps give an identity to one's already adopted practices.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I was very happy to read this review as I find it quite valuable
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Effective read that makes me want to implement at work right away. The tips are easy to understand and digest. Looking forward to pin the quotes up at my desk as well!
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Quite intriguing and inciteful. I really learnt a lot about the 3 qualities of a One Minute Minute which are One minute goals, One minute Praising and One minute direct. Great read. Looking forward to applying these key principles when I assume a managerial role
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Every leader or aspiring leader should read this. It's by no means the Bible of leadership and management, but it help you lead better.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This 2015 book updates the original One Minute Manager text from 1986 (which I read a few months ago). The new book has many things in common with the old one, including the same format, much of the same text, and the same basic One Minute Secrets to successful management. Today, however, Blanchard and Johnson no longer recommend that managers touch subordinates while giving One Minute Re-Directs (name changed from One Minute Reprimand in the original). The new edition is a quick read with much practical advice. I'd recommend that managers read this new version, rather than the original.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Was such a helpful book. It gives you a lot of sources on how to manage people, what to expect from them as well as for yourself! I appreciate it!
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great book deserved reading and implementing . Amazing tips for people management !
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5written like a story , but has good meaning and summarized information. Worth to try at my work and life.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A refreshing way to be a team leader/manager of a Team as well as implementing it in daily life.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Great book, urge all managers to read it now. Thnaks
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book is essential for managers both young and seasoned. I read the first edition and now the ‘new’ one. There is enough unique content that makes it worth reading.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I love the tools that I can use in my Business Management Class
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Book preview
The New One Minute Manager - Ken Blanchard
The Search
ONCE there was a bright young man who was looking for a special kind of manager who could lead and manage in today’s changing world.
He wanted to find one who encouraged people to balance their work and their life, so that each became more meaningful and enjoyable.
He wanted to work for one and he wanted to become one.
His search had taken him over many years to the far corners of the world.
He had been in small towns and in the capitals of powerful nations.
He had spoken with many managers who were trying to deal with a rapidly changing world: executives and entrepreneurs, government administrators and military personnel, university presidents and foundation directors; with managers of shops and stores, of restaurants, banks, and hotels; with men and women—young and old.
He had gone into every kind of office, large and small, luxurious and sparse, with windows and without.
He was beginning to see the full spectrum of how people manage people.
But he wasn’t always pleased with what he saw.
He had seen many tough
managers whose organizations seemed to win while the people working there lost.
Some thought they were good managers. Many thought otherwise.
As the young man sat in each of these tough
people’s offices, he asked, What kind of a manager would you say you are?
Their answers varied only slightly.
I’m a bottom-line manager—I keep on top of the situation,
he was told. Hard-nosed.
Realistic.
Profit-minded.
They said they had always managed that way and saw no reason to change.
He heard the pride in their voices and their interest in results.
The young man also met many nice
managers whose people seemed to win while their organizations lost.
Some of the people who reported to them thought they were good managers.
Those to whom they reported had their doubts.
As the young man sat and listened to these nice
people answer the same question, he heard:
I’m a participative manager.
Supportive.
Considerate.
Humanistic.
They also said they had always managed that way and saw no reason to change.
He heard the pride in their voices and their interest in people.
But he was disturbed.
It was as though most managers in the world were still managing the way they had always done and were primarily interested either in results or in people.
Managers who were interested in results often seemed to be labeled autocratic,
while the ones interested in people were often labeled democratic.
The young man thought each of these types—the tough
autocrat and the nice
democrat—was only partially effective. It’s like being half a manager, he thought.
He returned home tired and discouraged.
He might have given up his search long ago, but he had one great advantage. He knew exactly what he was looking for.
In these changing times, he thought, the most effective managers manage themselves and the people they work with so that both the people and the organization profit from their presence.
The young man had looked everywhere for an effective manager but had found only a few. The few he did find would not share their secrets with him. He began to think maybe he would never find what he was looking for.
Then he began hearing marvelous stories about a special manager who lived, surprisingly, in a nearby town. He heard that people liked to work for this man and that they produced great results together.
He also heard that when people applied the manager’s principles to their personal lives, they got great results as well.
He wondered if the stories were really true and, if so, whether this person would be willing to share his secrets with him.
Curious, he phoned the assistant to this special manager to see if he might get an appointment. To his surprise, the assistant put him through to the manager immediately.
The young man asked when he might be able to meet with him, and the manager said, Anytime this week is fine, except Wednesday morning. You pick the time.
The young man was puzzled. What kind of manager had that kind of time available? But he was fascinated as well, and went to see him.
The New One Minute Manager
WHEN the young man arrived at the Manager’s office, he found him looking out the window. The Manager turned and invited him to sit down. What can I do for you?
"I’ve heard great things about you and would like to know more about the way you