by Kenneth Blanchard Ph.D and Spencer Johnson. M.D. adapted by yetmee

The One Minute Manager is a book written by two experts in the field of psychology and organizational behavior. It tells the story of a young man seeking answers to be an effective manager. And in the course of this search he went far and wide and many corners of the earth and met many types of people and many types of managers. There were the ones which their organization seem to revel in are those that are “tough”, “profit orientated”, “hard-nosed”, “result driven”, “bottom lined managers”. The managers speak of these characteristics with pride but the subordinates think otherwise. Then there were the ones who were “nice” where the people win but the organization doesn’t. They were “considerate”, “supportive”, “participative” and “humanistic”. But the young man found these two types of managers to be only partially effective on their own, like half a manager.

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