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vikramdas's review against another edition
1.0
Just finished a very breezy read of The One Minute manager by Ken Blanchard & Spencer Johnson (of who moved my cheese fame). Ok, I think I’m going to ruffle some feathers here as I hear that this is considered an excellent resources for managers. Frankly, I did not find the book that awe-inspiring or even path-breaking. In all the entire book can be summarized in three ideas – One minute goals (set precise SMART goals), one minute praising (show appreciation for a job well done and be specific about the praise) and one minute reprimands (reprimand the performance and not the person and always leave with a praise). In fact, we have a Hindi version of the third theory which we used to use as a joke (phele maaro, phir puchkaro). Well that may sound a bit crass, but the point is that it made me feel that the book didn’t have anything new to offer me.
Enough of crib about book, let me leave with a positive on the book. The best part of this book is that its so small that you don’t have to suffer it for too long...:-) Just kidding!!! Apologize to those who may have found this book useful, there might be something that I’m not thinking through right now and have missed in the book.
Enough of crib about book, let me leave with a positive on the book. The best part of this book is that its so small that you don’t have to suffer it for too long...:-) Just kidding!!! Apologize to those who may have found this book useful, there might be something that I’m not thinking through right now and have missed in the book.
krystaldiane's review against another edition
lighthearted
fast-paced
4.5
Our company made me read this and it's okay. It just reminded me who needed this book the most. I think her name is Melanie Le hahahhaha She had the worst management style if you ask me.
annashiv's review against another edition
1.0
Hated this. Mainly because it feels very manipulative, but also because it doesn't seem rooted in any science. There's no citations or studies mentioned. Not real ones anyway. It all sounds nice and seems to make sense, but people don't talk to people that way (in the way they are instructing you to). It seems mostly geared towards selling something easy to digest to as many people as possible (as evidenced by the last part which encourages you to share. Maybe my reading was tainted because my boss assigned me to read it, but I don't see this ever being truly useful to me or anyone other than making them feel like they're being a good manager.
deepat's review against another edition
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
Quick read. But I sure don’t like it as much as Who Moved my Cheese? The concepts are good, though, if a bit idealistic. The assumption here that people are all the same all the time. I disagree. People sometimes do strange things for entirely personal reasons. But I do agree that this would be a very moral and ethical way of managing people. Wish life were this simple!
llanirev's review against another edition
1.0
This book should've been a one minute read.
It has a very thin message, which it tries to bring forward in an overly elaborate story which finds itself fantastic and keeps stressing that this is the holy method of method. One or two interesting take aways but in all a preachy, hollow story.
It has a very thin message, which it tries to bring forward in an overly elaborate story which finds itself fantastic and keeps stressing that this is the holy method of method. One or two interesting take aways but in all a preachy, hollow story.