This is reality!
Otto Yuen (ottoyuen@yahoo.com), A reviewer, 01/08/2007

1 minute goal, 1 minute praising, and 1 minute reprimand can help you not only on your career but also in your personal life. This is a short book and very easy to read. The main idea is knowing what your outcome, catching people doing things right, catching people doing things wrong. Simple but convincing. At the end of the book, it does explain why these things work and why people function these way. Pleasure reading in 2 hours. Very helpful and practical! (Reviewed by Otto Yuen, 07-Jan-2007)

Time Is Money
A.J. (ReadThisBook@YourLibrary.com), constant reader, 11/29/2006

This is a great book and is a quick read. It does not matter if you are a manager in a company or not, the methods in this book could help anyone in their daily lives. If followed, some of the things in this book could help you save time.

Also recommended: 'Flowers For Algernon' by Daniel Keys, 'The Davinci Code' by Dan Brown, 'The 5 People You Meet In Heaven' by Mitch Albom, & 'Animal Farm' by George Orwell.

A minute can go a long way.
A reviewer, a CEO, 10/02/2006

No, you probably can't manage everybody in a minute's time, but we can all do better and the points in this book are frequently overlooked and very worthwhile. Using a short story to illustrate the simple principles that can easily be read in a day's time, this management classic may not make everyone the manager of the year but it will give everyone something to think about. Short, sweet, and to the point, it's definitely worth a look.

Also recommended: 'The Sixty-Second Motivator'

Can't Put Down
Tony (tpatt09@yahoo.com), a high school student, 03/07/2006

I am a high school student who absolutly loves this book. It brought simple facts to such a broad topic. This book hits the main parts of managing, and anyone who is interested in this topic should read it. A great square one book that everyone should read.

Also recommended: The one thing you need to know about great managing great leaders, and individual sustained success. The 21 irrefutable laws of leadership.

I dissent!
Wes, philosophy & public administration, 06/19/2005

Wow, if someone really wants to know why there are so many leadership problems in this country, look to the One Minute Manager. The book provides a simple approach for how those 'above' deal with those 'below' and dishes this at you like it really is all it takes to be a manager (note: strict adherence to this book may have been all you needed to thrive among the inner circles at Enron). The book revolves around some mystical Super Manager whose draw is that he doesn't need to spend time with anybody; he is finished with you, his subordinate, in, well... One Minute. It is mesermizing to think that you, too, could actually dispose of all your responsibilities with such lightning speed. The greens seem just One Minute away... So how does he do it...? Classical conditioning, a technique used to train animals for millenia. Yes, One Minute tells you almost nothing you didn't already learn in middle school about how to get your dog to roll over: provide rewards (praise) when he does what you want, and communicate concern when he doesn't. Now here's the problem with One Minute: effectively managing a project, department, etc in a legitimate organization requires knowledge, competence, and professionalism in your field. Therein lies the other 99% of managing that One Minute dwelleth not upon, the other 479+ minutes of real work that you (and those competing against you) are being paid for. Anyway, not everything about the book was bad. The content of One Minute is directly applicable to training pets and domesticated animals (thus the second star). I also feel that by reading One Minute I gained a fuller understanding of how such a surplus of mismanagement and organizational failures across the land came to be- the proliferation and acceptance of incompetent one minute managers.

Also recommended: The Art of Memory