The One Minute Manager
Spencer Johnson
Language: English
Pages: 111
ISBN: 0688014291
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
For more than twenty years, millions of managers in Fortune 500 companies and small businesses nationwide have followed The One Minute Manager's techniques, thus increasing their productivity, job satisfaction, and personal prosperity. These very real results were achieved through learning the management techniques that spell profitability for the organization and its employees.
The One Minute Manager is a concise, easily read story that reveals three very practical secrets: One Minute Goals, One Minute Praisings, and One Minute Reprimands.
The book also presents several studies in medicine and the behavioral sciences that clearly explain why these apparently simple methods work so well with so many people. By the book's end you will know how to apply them to your own situation and enjoy the benefits.
That's why The One Minute Manager has continued to appear on business bestseller lists for more than two decades, and has become an international sensation.
time they keep on raising the rope until they finally get it to the surface of the water. Now the great whale knows that in order to get fed, he has to jump partially out of the water and over the rope. As soon as that goal is reached, they can start raising the rope higher and higher out of the water.” “So that’s how they do it,” the young man said. “Well, I can understand now how using that method works with animals, but isn’t it a bit much to use it with people?” “No, it’s very natural in
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 their people lost. Some of their superiors thought they were good managers. Many of their subordinates thought otherwise. As
wanted to know. “Well, when he has seen that you have done something right, he comes over and makes contact with you. That often includes putting his hand on your shoulder or briefly touching you in a friendly way.” “Doesn’t that bother you,” the young man wondered, “when he touches you?” “No!” Levy insisted. “On the contrary, it helps. I know he really cares about me and he wants me to prosper. As he says, The more consistently successful your people are, the higher you rise in the
things are not going well for him elsewhere. I know he may be annoyed about other things. But he responds to where I am, not just to where he is at the time. And I really appreciate that.” “Doesn’t all this praising have to take up a lot of the manager’s time?” the young man asked. “Not really,” said Levy. “Remember you don’t have to praise someone for very long for them to know you noticed and you care. It usually takes less than a minute.” “And that’s why it’s called a One Minute Praising,” the
somewhere before. He wanted to reflect on what he was learning. He left the building and took a walk among the trees nearby. He was struck again by the simplicity and common sense of what he had heard. “How can you argue with the effectiveness of catching people doing something right,” the young man thought, “especially after they know what they are to do and what good performance looks like. “But do One Minute Praisings really work?” he wondered. “Does all this One Minute Management stuff really