The One Minute Manager
With all of this talk and thinking about training and education – bringing people to a point where they can learn things and then teach others the same thing – I thought I should probably do some reading on it.
I happened to be skimming through Dave Ramsey’s recommended reading list, and I wrote down several books that I thought would be a great help (which were most of the ones on his list). Then I searched the catalog of our local library to see if they had any of them. They actually had several.
So on my way to band practice at church last night, I stopped at the Amelia branch, signed up for a library card (which I had been meaning to do anyway), and searched for some of the books.
I walked out with two books. One of them was The One Minute Manager by Dr. Kenneth Blanchard and Dr. Spencer Johnson. It was a small paperback – only about 110 pages.
I read the book in under one hour, and I have to say, it was better than I could have expected. It was very simple, and it was written in the style of a narrated story (which I wasn’t expecting), but it was chock full of some very practical methods of managing people and getting great results.
I won’t spoil the three secrets in the book for you. I HIGHLY suggest you pick up a copy and give it a read. It is definitely worth turning off the TV for an hour to read (which I need to do more of anyway). This book is great whether you manage a home, a business, a family, or a life.
I’m definitely going to apply the things that I learned in this book, and I can already tell you that they are going to work.
On to the next book!
Have any of you read anything like this (or this one specifically)? Any thoughts?
Craig Groeschel is coming out with another book on October 2. This one’s called 