Self-help · LightA short story about a young man searching for an effective manager and the three techniques he learns
The One Minute Manager
by Ken Blanchard & Spencer Johnson
Three one-minute techniques, told as a short story
William Morrow published The One Minute Manager in 1982, and it appeared on the New York Times bestseller list shortly after. The book is a short story about a young man searching for an effective manager. He eventually meets a manager known as The One Minute Manager and learns three techniques: one-minute goals, one-minute praisings and one-minute reprimands, renamed one-minute redirects in the 2015 edition.
More about this book
Who
A young man looking for an effective manager, and the manager he meets.
World
The workplace, told as a short story of about 112 pages.
What makes it different
Wikipedia cites UMass Magazine (2019) for 15 million copies sold and 47 languages. A sequel, Leadership and the One Minute Manager, followed in 1985, and Time listed the book among the 25 Most Influential Business Management Books.
Feel
Brisk and practical.
Page count and cover shown for: Selected edition
Further reading
- The One Minute ManagerWikipedia