The One Minute Manager

The One Minute Manager
Author Ken Blanchard
Country United States
Language English
Genre Business / Self-help / Motivational
Publisher William Morrow & Co
Publication date
1982
Pages 112
ISBN 978-0-00-636753-6

The One Minute Manager is a short book by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson. The brief volume tells a story, recounting three techniques of an effective manager: one-minute goals, one-minute praisings and one-minute reprimands. Each of these takes only a minute but is purportedly of lasting benefit.[1]

Sequels

It was followed by a sequel, Leadership and the One Minute Manager, by Ken Blanchard, Patricia Zigarmi and Drea Zigarmi, which laid out Blanchard's Situational Leadership II concept.[2]

Criticisms

The concept has been called a management fad, and derivative of Management by objectives, itself derived from the business planning literature.[3] One critic called it "the executive equivalent of paper-training your dog."[4]

Controversies

While becoming a best-seller, the Wall Street Journal ran an article exposing the book as a heavily plagiarized document.[5] The article asserted that almost half of the book was lifted directly from an article previously published by University of Massachusetts at Amherst professor Arthur Elliott Carlisle.[6] Blanchard and Johnson offered conflicting stories on their reasons for not citing the original author, including an insistence, later abandoned, that one of them helped Carlisle write the original article.[7]`

References

  1. Book review by Eric Spamer, Bruin Leaders Project, UCLA
  2. Kenneth H. Blanchard, Patricia Zigarmi, and Drea Zigarmi. Leadership and the One Minute Manager: Increasing Effectiveness through Situational Leadership. New York: Morrow, 1985.
  3. Miller, Danny; Hartwick, Jon (October 2002). "Spotting Management Fads" (PDF). Harvard Business Review: 27. Retrieved 2011-07-23.
  4. Jackson, S. (January 20, 1986). "Management lingo: how to read between the lines". Business Week: 58., in Graeff, Claude L. (1997). "Evolution of Situational Leadership Theory: A Critical Review" (PDF). Leadership Quarterly. JAI Press, Inc. 8 (2): 156–157. Retrieved 2011-07-23.
  5. Ober, Scot (2002). Business Communication (5 ed.). Houghton Mifflin College Division. p. 435. ISBN 0618343296.
  6. The Liars' Club by Jon Entine, San Francisco Chronicle
  7. Entine, Jon (Jun 27, 2001). "Uh-oh: The feckless defense of fabulists". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, IL. p. 19. Retrieved 2011-07-23.


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