294 books
—
481 voters
Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read.
Start by marking “The One Minute Manager” as Want to Read:
The One Minute Manager
(One Minute Manager)
by
This book teaches the quickest way to increase productivity, profits, job satisfaction, and personal prosperity. It is a revolutionary new management method that is already producing very real results for top managers and Fortune 500 companies nationwide. Many believe that it will soon be recognized as the answer to the nation’s falling productivity -- America’s answer to
...more
Hardcover, 111 pages
Published
October 7th 2003
by William Morrow & Company
(first published 1981)
Friend Reviews
To see what your friends thought of this book,
please sign up.
Reader Q&A
To ask other readers questions about
The One Minute Manager,
please sign up.
Popular Answered Questions
Community Reviews
Showing 1-30

أشكر المولى جلت قدرته .. أن يسر لي الدخول على موقع " قودريدز " ومنه .. قرأت ملخصاً للكتاب لأجزم على شرائه .. وأقرؤه في فترة أشد ما أحتاجه فيها !
مدير الدقيقة الواحدة .. كتاب إداري .. حاز على جوائز عالمية .. وبيع منه أكثر من 7 ملايين نسخة حول العالم .. كما ترجم إلى عدة لغات مختلفة ..
سأحاول أن ألخص أفكار الكتاب حتى تصل لذهن القارئ .. كما أشير بأن الملخص لا يغني عن قراءة الكتاب لأن بين السطور ما بينها .. وهناك الكثير من الفوائد التي جنيتها من الكتاب ..
تتلخص فكرة مدير الدقيقة الواحدة بالتالي :
1. وضع ...more
مدير الدقيقة الواحدة .. كتاب إداري .. حاز على جوائز عالمية .. وبيع منه أكثر من 7 ملايين نسخة حول العالم .. كما ترجم إلى عدة لغات مختلفة ..
سأحاول أن ألخص أفكار الكتاب حتى تصل لذهن القارئ .. كما أشير بأن الملخص لا يغني عن قراءة الكتاب لأن بين السطور ما بينها .. وهناك الكثير من الفوائد التي جنيتها من الكتاب ..
تتلخص فكرة مدير الدقيقة الواحدة بالتالي :
1. وضع ...more

There is this genre I call business fiction. The characteristics of the genre are as follows:
1. A Simple contrived narrative with a pedantic plod.
2. An aim at communicating common sense wisdom for the business world.
3. A healthy overlay of positive thinking.
4. characters you could care less about because they are one dimensional, mindless automatons sent by the author to fulfill his didactic purposes but do not breath, bleed, or have any life of their own.
5. Lots of slogans that would look nic ...more
1. A Simple contrived narrative with a pedantic plod.
2. An aim at communicating common sense wisdom for the business world.
3. A healthy overlay of positive thinking.
4. characters you could care less about because they are one dimensional, mindless automatons sent by the author to fulfill his didactic purposes but do not breath, bleed, or have any life of their own.
5. Lots of slogans that would look nic ...more

This short book packs a lot of advice about effective management into an allegorical story. The tips are realistic and practical, and not too preachy. Here are my notes, mostly quoted straight from the book:
Manager Types
Autocratic
- "Tough"
- Interested in results
- Profit-minded
- Organization wins while people lose
Democratic
- "Nice"
- Interested in people
- People win while organization loses
People who feel good about themselves produce good results.
One minute goal setting
1. Agree on your goals.
2. S ...more
Manager Types
Autocratic
- "Tough"
- Interested in results
- Profit-minded
- Organization wins while people lose
Democratic
- "Nice"
- Interested in people
- People win while organization loses
People who feel good about themselves produce good results.
One minute goal setting
1. Agree on your goals.
2. S ...more

Is there a word for books that are over one hundred pages long but which summarise themselves in less than one page?
In this case everything you need to know is on page, luckily not room, 101 (view spoiler) . The rest of the book is some kind of modern fable, presumably because the authors felt embarrassed by the idea of selling their idea on a postcard, that repetitiously repeats that the man ...more
In this case everything you need to know is on page, luckily not room, 101 (view spoiler) . The rest of the book is some kind of modern fable, presumably because the authors felt embarrassed by the idea of selling their idea on a postcard, that repetitiously repeats that the man ...more

The writing is absolutely wretched. It's as if it were written for school children. Poorly.
That being said, I think this is probably a really solid management style. I just wish they showed a little more respect for the reader. The dialog attribution alone is nausea-inducing.
This is from the same school of thought as Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends & Influence People. Which is, basically, if you manipulate people into thinking you care about them, they'll do what you want. Of course, it's ...more
That being said, I think this is probably a really solid management style. I just wish they showed a little more respect for the reader. The dialog attribution alone is nausea-inducing.
This is from the same school of thought as Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends & Influence People. Which is, basically, if you manipulate people into thinking you care about them, they'll do what you want. Of course, it's ...more

Well that was a very basic and short book!

I liked it but I personally didn't find much value in it. Though, if only my shittiest manager were to have read this book - I would be freed from so much sucky-ass-manager grief!
The structure of this book is so strange... usually personal development books are instructional and insightful which this book kinda is but it's told as a story. It's a story about interviewing several people lol I feel like Blanchard did this to thicken the book, else he cou ...more

I liked it but I personally didn't find much value in it. Though, if only my shittiest manager were to have read this book - I would be freed from so much sucky-ass-manager grief!
The structure of this book is so strange... usually personal development books are instructional and insightful which this book kinda is but it's told as a story. It's a story about interviewing several people lol I feel like Blanchard did this to thicken the book, else he cou ...more

This was on the shelf on the house I stayed at on my holidays and as I'm supposed to lead a team these days I thought it would be useful.
David Brent could have written this book. It's so cheesey and american it's unreal. Basically it has three ideas. One minute target setting - all goals mapped out in less than 250 words with each team member getting fourteen or fifteen or twenty odd or something targets. There's also one minute praise. It advises you to 'touch people in a reassuring way' during ...more
David Brent could have written this book. It's so cheesey and american it's unreal. Basically it has three ideas. One minute target setting - all goals mapped out in less than 250 words with each team member getting fourteen or fifteen or twenty odd or something targets. There's also one minute praise. It advises you to 'touch people in a reassuring way' during ...more

Sep 11, 2016
المدرب محمد الملا
rated it
really liked it
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
management
أسم الكتاب: مدير الدقيقة الواحدة
المؤلف: Kenneth H. Blanchard, Spencer Johnson
عدد الصفحات: 106
التقييم: أربع نجمات
الآن أتفهم لماذا هذا الكتاب له هذه الشهرة فهو جاذب في أسلوبه القصصي الواضح والسلس والمباشر والمؤلفان تمكنا عبره من عرض جيد لفكرتهم حول المبادئ الثلاثة لمدير الدقيقة الواحدة (الهدف، الثناء، اللوم)، وإعتقد إني كنت موفقاً جداً حين نصحت به إلى أحد الأخوة والذي يترقب ترقية لمنصب إداري بلا خبرة ولا دراسة مسبقة في المجال الإداري ليكون هذا الكتاب بمثابة المقدمة له ..وهو كذلك، فالكتاب يصلح ليكو ...more
المؤلف: Kenneth H. Blanchard, Spencer Johnson
عدد الصفحات: 106
التقييم: أربع نجمات
الآن أتفهم لماذا هذا الكتاب له هذه الشهرة فهو جاذب في أسلوبه القصصي الواضح والسلس والمباشر والمؤلفان تمكنا عبره من عرض جيد لفكرتهم حول المبادئ الثلاثة لمدير الدقيقة الواحدة (الهدف، الثناء، اللوم)، وإعتقد إني كنت موفقاً جداً حين نصحت به إلى أحد الأخوة والذي يترقب ترقية لمنصب إداري بلا خبرة ولا دراسة مسبقة في المجال الإداري ليكون هذا الكتاب بمثابة المقدمة له ..وهو كذلك، فالكتاب يصلح ليكو ...more

Simple, quick and entertaining story about how to manage yourself and be a manager.
You'd think there'd be a secret sauce to it, some way to conduct yourself or boss people around in an effective way. Turns out, the three steps of managing (goal setting, praising and reprimanding) are not only a '"minute" each, but couldn't be more jaw-dropping obvious and right.
Be precise about what you want to get done and the quality it has to be done by, but give autonomy in how it's done. This gives space ...more
You'd think there'd be a secret sauce to it, some way to conduct yourself or boss people around in an effective way. Turns out, the three steps of managing (goal setting, praising and reprimanding) are not only a '"minute" each, but couldn't be more jaw-dropping obvious and right.
Be precise about what you want to get done and the quality it has to be done by, but give autonomy in how it's done. This gives space ...more

Крутая, очень краткая, понятная и невероятно полезная деловая книга "Одноминутный менеджер" просто редкость в огромном мире бизнес литературы и это та книга, о которой, после прочтении, вы броситесь поделится ею со своими знакомыми! Иначе невозможно!
Для любого руководителя книга - это находка ценою в миллиард долларов! Если какой нибудь руководитель, менеджер или управляющий ещё не прочел эту книгу - он многое потерял. И я смело отношу себя к последним, который жалеет, что не прочел эту книгу ещ ...more
Для любого руководителя книга - это находка ценою в миллиард долларов! Если какой нибудь руководитель, менеджер или управляющий ещё не прочел эту книгу - он многое потерял. И я смело отношу себя к последним, который жалеет, что не прочел эту книгу ещ ...more

راقت لي قصة الكتاب واستفدت من الحكم و الأفكار التي حملها، وأعجبني أكثر أسلوب الكاتب الممتع والمشوق... قرأته في وقت قصير نظرا لعدد صفحاته، ١٠٦فقط، وأسلوبه الجذاب.
أوافق الأخ محمد آل قرعاني في "مدونة كتب" حين تمنى أن يتحول هذا الكتاب إلى عمل سينمائي؛ حتى تصل أفكاره لشريحة أوسع.
http://b-books.ws/?p=1422
أوافق الأخ محمد آل قرعاني في "مدونة كتب" حين تمنى أن يتحول هذا الكتاب إلى عمل سينمائي؛ حتى تصل أفكاره لشريحة أوسع.
http://b-books.ws/?p=1422

Feb 18, 2018
Dhruv Sharma
rated it
really liked it
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
self-improvement
I Liked this book and let me try to summarize the takeaway using a small example of a game called “Bowling”:
Let’s say a person X (who is supervisor level of employee) is playing bowling and the pins are being place by another person Y (who is happens to be a senior management level employee). The idea is that the Y will set the pins and X will strike the pins using the ball.
The catch here in the game is that there is a curtain in between the player who is bowling and the pins he need to strike ( ...more
Let’s say a person X (who is supervisor level of employee) is playing bowling and the pins are being place by another person Y (who is happens to be a senior management level employee). The idea is that the Y will set the pins and X will strike the pins using the ball.
The catch here in the game is that there is a curtain in between the player who is bowling and the pins he need to strike ( ...more

One minute Manager... Can a manager finish all his job in just one minute? That's what this book claims. Blanchard takes us through a pursuit of a young manager to find the best practices of a Manager. He meets a very efficient manager with whom he learns three basic principles of One minute manager. The book though is a management oriented, the author makes us feel as if we are reading a story. The examples shared by the managers could have been better. All in all i gave this 4 out of 5 only be
...more

Laughably oversimplified advice, for the most part very truthful and common sensical, that I'm sure works spectacularly in a healthy, homogeneous, and fully functional society that I'm having a hard time envisioning in today's world. Written in 1981, the type of managerial relationship portrayed here was already gone, it just hadn't evidenced itself yet. The advice contained within actually works better for dealing with children, specifically your own, when it comes to the much-stressed aspect o
...more

There are some great lessons in this book but I found the format of the Socratic Dialogue to come off as gimmicky. This book assumes a team that are all intrinsically motivated and can operate completely independently but even if you are still working on more basic staff development there is plenty to take away. If you can get past the quirky format of the book, it's worth the hour and a half to read.

قصة شاب يبحث عن المدير الفعال، تنقل في عدد من الدول والمدن وقابل العديد من المدراء والموظفين ليتعرف على الإدارة الفعالة، إلى أن التقى ب مدير الدقيقة الواحدة والذي لخص له منهج إدارة فعالة تعتمد على:
1. أهداف الدقيقة الواحدة – كتابة الهدف في ورقة مستقله ولا تتعدى 250 كلمة وفهمها جيداً ومراجعتها كل يوم
2. ثناء الدقيقة الواحدة – إعلام الموظف بأنك ستخبره بما يفعله "ثناء أو لوم" مراقبة الموظف والثناء على إنجازاته
3. اللوم الدقيقة الواحدة -إعلام الموظف بأنك ستخبره بما يفعله "ثناء أو لوم" أخبر الموظف بخط ...more

The One Minute Manager is a short book written by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson. Written in a style of fiction, The One Minute Manager presents through example and explanation a method of managing people in a short period of time using only 3 steps.
The main idea behind the book is that to manage people quickly and effectively, there are 3 important steps: 1) Goal Setting, in which an agreement is reached on the person's responsibilities and then these responsibilities are broken down and ...more
The main idea behind the book is that to manage people quickly and effectively, there are 3 important steps: 1) Goal Setting, in which an agreement is reached on the person's responsibilities and then these responsibilities are broken down and ...more

I would recommend this book to anyone who is overseeing others in a managerial capacity
The One Minute Manager is a narrative about a young man looking for the most effective management skills. Through this parable, Kenneth Blanchard and Spenser Johnson seek to show what makes the most effective management approach, an approach that allows for employee innovation and creativity. The book includes topics on motivating, appraisals and sanctions as well as goal setting.
I believe that the advice offe ...more
The One Minute Manager is a narrative about a young man looking for the most effective management skills. Through this parable, Kenneth Blanchard and Spenser Johnson seek to show what makes the most effective management approach, an approach that allows for employee innovation and creativity. The book includes topics on motivating, appraisals and sanctions as well as goal setting.
I believe that the advice offe ...more

Ken Blanchard is a deceptive genius, and his brief books belie brilliance of how he presents his powerful points and themes. He is able to share some solutions and questions of life's great mysteries and secrets in simple, consumable, and ultimately useable form. In his advisory epistles, he notes rightly, that to the degree that we languish in implementing changes to change and improve our lives, well, the less they impact. Specifically he often talks about a 48 hour grace period.
I've always a ...more
I've always a ...more

I heard about the book a long time back and it has been waiting in my bookshelf for some 1 year now. The only reason that the thinness of the book was not able to entice me in reading it was the fact that most of the famous management books that you come across in your life become clichéd with time. If you have not read them in any chronological order then time and again you are bound to get that feeling of déjà vu.
This book is about a man who is on a lookout for some gyaan(learning) about mana ...more
This book is about a man who is on a lookout for some gyaan(learning) about mana ...more

*giggle*
*giggle-snort*
OK. I totally get why this book would have been so dog-gone popular... THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO!
It's a cute story - this up-and-coming yuppie-type interviews a successful business manager to find out his secrets for success. Then he is sent to interview three of this manager's subordinates, who each give him one of the three secrets to being a One Minute Manager. (I kept thinking of Dickens' Christmas ghosts! LOL!)
It's all boiled down to three simple rules: Set Goals, Give Imme ...more
*giggle-snort*
OK. I totally get why this book would have been so dog-gone popular... THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO!
It's a cute story - this up-and-coming yuppie-type interviews a successful business manager to find out his secrets for success. Then he is sent to interview three of this manager's subordinates, who each give him one of the three secrets to being a One Minute Manager. (I kept thinking of Dickens' Christmas ghosts! LOL!)
It's all boiled down to three simple rules: Set Goals, Give Imme ...more

This is probably the worst management book I have ever read. It is filled with so many trivial things that most people have already learned in their upbringing which makes the book completely unbearable.
On the front cover it states that this is the World's Most Popular Management Method. I don't believe that is a fact. It also says More Success With Less Stress. As an old stress "victim" I take statements like that very serious however it is hardly mentioned in the book how this is achieved. Th ...more
On the front cover it states that this is the World's Most Popular Management Method. I don't believe that is a fact. It also says More Success With Less Stress. As an old stress "victim" I take statements like that very serious however it is hardly mentioned in the book how this is achieved. Th ...more
There are no discussion topics on this book yet.
Be the first to start one »
Ken Blanchard, one of the most influential leadership experts in the world, is the coauthor of the iconic bestseller, The One Minute Manager, and 60 other books whose combined sales total more than 21 million copies. His groundbreaking works have been translated into more than 27 languages and in 2005 he was inducted into Amazon’s Hall of Fame as one of the top 25 bestselling authors of all time.
K ...more
K ...more
Other books in the series
One Minute Manager
(1 - 10 of 15 books)
2 trivia questions
More quizzes & trivia...
“Take a minute: look at your goals, look at your performance, see if your behavior matches your goals.”
—
41 likes
“Secret #1 : One minute Goal Setting
"People who feel good about themselves produce good results”
—
24 likes
More quotes…
"People who feel good about themselves produce good results”