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Title: The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey by William, Jr. Oncken, Hal Burrows, Kenneth H. Blanchard ISBN: 0-688-10380-4 Publisher: Quill Pub. Date: January, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Absolutely Fantastic! Will kickstart your career
Comment: Buy the book or better yet listen to the tape then watch the change in your attitude Monday morning.
A good meter for a manager to know if he has too many monkeys is by comparing e-mail inbaskets, since that is where so many of us spend much of our time nowadays. My own is usually over 300 items while my staff's is usually under 20. I thought about each of these as a monkey and then also thought back over all the one-on-one conversations I had had with each of them (7 people). In most cases, it was usually left that I would do something next, and that fits in perfectly with this book. True to the book and the tape, I spend countless hours to catch up, only to fall further behind.
The book is pretty good, but the tape is far superior. There are two tapes; the first one is a speech by Bill Oncken Jr, and he is just a fantastic story-teller. He really brings to life the story of the manager whose staff is all waiting on him, the stress he feels, and the revelation that hits him when he sees them golfing when he goes in on the weekend. Of course this is all written before the days of e-mail, but it still works. You can feel the energy in his voice rising as he turns his life around and puts all the monkeys back where they belong, and the final line where he gets the whole audience to shout "HOW'S IT GOING?!" to the new monkey-owner is a great ending.
The second tape is Ken Blanchard delivering the rest of the material, and while he's entertaining, it's not nearly as good as Oncken's "day-in-the-life" tale. He ties the material back to the One-Minute Manager, and touches on some psychological issues.
They also stress that this isn't just an exercise in delegating and taking work off the manager's hand, it is just as important as a developmental process for the subordinate.
As a side-note, it's interesting that there is no mention anywhere in the book of Spencer Johnson, the co-author of the original book The One Minute Manager, who invented the system. In all the author biographies and Thank-You's, he is never mentioned, I wonder if he and Blanchard had a parting of company. And the book itself makes almost no mention at all about what One-Minute Manager is all about, it seems just a way to put a popular title to a book about monkey management,
although I think this monkey manual is the better book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Do you or your boss have trouble with delegation?
Comment: Give them this book. I have read it four times and given away about 20 copies to bosses, colleagues, employees, or clients who were having trouble delegating, and it has helped in most cases. It is a thin book that is easy to read and somewhat inspiring.
Rating: 5
Summary: very good
Comment: I laught while reading this very instructive book. I strongly recommend it to you.
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Title: The One Minute Manager by Spencer Johnson, Kenneth H. Blanchard ISBN: 0425098478 Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc. Pub. Date: 1983 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Leadership and the One Minute Manager : Increasing Effectiveness Through Situational Leadership by Ken Blanchard, Patricia Zigarmi ISBN: 0688039693 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 06 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Putting the One Minute Manager to Work by Robert Lorber, Kenneth H. Blanchard ISBN: 0425104257 Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc. Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The One Minute Manager Builds High Performing Teams (revised Edition) by Ken Blanchard, Eunice Parisi-Carew ISBN: 0688172156 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The One Minute Manager Balances Work and Life by Ken Blanchard, Marjorie Blanchard ISBN: 0688168507 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 07 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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