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3.48 AVERAGE
3.48 AVERAGE
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There is some decent solid advice here but there's no need for a full book especially if it wasn't going to be back up with any actual evidence or real world examples.
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As a new manager with limited experience, I found this book to be an interesting look at managing. Like other Blanchard books, it's a parable, of sorts. Not my style of learning, aphorisms wrapped in parables, but it's informative, and the distilled core of the information is useful.
I was given this book during onboarding at my new job and . . . yeah.
It wasn't bad, nor was it good. Management texts like this one have a place in the world, of course; they're just never particularly illuminating.
I enjoyed the focus on treating employees with respect, but all employees were treated as inherently similar re: what motivates them. As anybody who has ever taken an MBTI assessment knows, every person responds to management styles differently. This book lacked any sort of recognition of that, and it was weaker for it.
I also wish it had been told in a less didactic fashion. Just give me the instructional text and supporting data, please, I don't need a mid-level managerial fable. It felt so cultish. At the same time, I understand that the audience for books like this is generally less apt to read "dry" nonfiction of any length, so what can you do?
It wasn't bad, nor was it good. Management texts like this one have a place in the world, of course; they're just never particularly illuminating.
I enjoyed the focus on treating employees with respect, but all employees were treated as inherently similar re: what motivates them. As anybody who has ever taken an MBTI assessment knows, every person responds to management styles differently. This book lacked any sort of recognition of that, and it was weaker for it.
I also wish it had been told in a less didactic fashion. Just give me the instructional text and supporting data, please, I don't need a mid-level managerial fable. It felt so cultish. At the same time, I understand that the audience for books like this is generally less apt to read "dry" nonfiction of any length, so what can you do?
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It’s fine. Good points are made, and it’s a very quick read. A lot of it is simple and rather cliche, but way worse business books are out there. Though the “storytelling” is so cheesy my lactose intolerance flared up, it’s probably a book I’ll shelf and never think about again
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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.