The 59-Second Employee : How to Stay One Second Ahead of Your One Minute Manager

by Rae André, Peter D. Ward

The 59-Second Employee is an employees response to formula management, an antidote to the quick-fix corporation. It is a little book that speaks volumes about cooperation in management and brings more control to those at the bottom of the corporate ladder. It describes how employees can use one-minute phrasing, reprimands, and goal-setting to their own advantage and how any employee can learn to manage up. Originally published by Houghton Mifflin, The 59-Second Employee sold more than 100,000 copies and was reprinted in numerous foreign editions. It was a Publishers Weekly best-selling trade paperback.

Genres: Management, Business

116 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1983

Reviews

[Christoph Kappel · Rating 3 out of 5]

This a really short book with full-page quotes, so basically read on one sunny afternoon. Some of the ideas are intriguing and remind me off how bad one minute management can actual be.

Using it against a one-minute-manager is funny, but since no one does that with my just something for a bucket list.

The book itself is kind of funny written though.

[Keith · Rating 5 out of 5]

A delightful antidote to the quick fix manipulation advocated by The One Minute Manager Anniversary Ed: The World's Most Popular Management Method This little book instead of advocating manipulative techniques, is just plain fun to read, and if implemented, I expect it would lead to a much more enjoyable career.

Contents
To Our Fellow Employees
In the Land of the One Minute Manager
In the Real World
The One Minute Employee? When Is Efficient Is in Efficient
How to Avoid the One Minute Reprimand
How to Take Advantage of the One Minute Praising
Manage Your Manager for Fun and Profit
Manager Company for Security and Satisfaction
Manage Yourself for Respect and Growth
Six Pressure Points and What to Do about Them
The 59 Second Game Plan
A Message from Our Product
Message to Managers

[Emily · Rating 2 out of 5]

Outdated and overly competitive. The authors of this book clearly see the workplace as a competition - little to no cooperation (or respect) between managers and employees, lots of competition between coworkers, lots of politics, and everyone-for-himself.

It was an interesting introduction to the theory of One Minute Management (the original book hasn't been delivered by the library yet), but I would highly recommend against reading this book for actual advice about how to behave in the workplace.