One Minute Manager: A Good Book on Management

Most of us during our career cycle pass through different managers. Every manager has its own style to manage the people/resources. Some we classify as good some as bad and some as worst. As I have seen among employees in different jobs, that I have had, too often the employee is left to figure out his/her job responsibilities. Or some times it is being told in a very vague manner. This is not the job of an employee to figure out what are his/her responsibility, but rather his/her manager's. Manager must tell in specific terms what he/she is supposed to do. Otherwise this might lead to confusion in the employee and finally to insecurity.

Also this is my personal experience that most of managers, keep watching their resources making sure that they are not doing any thing wrong. As this book says "Catch your employees doing something right". This motivates them. I feel this is one of the most important aspect of management.

One Minute Goal Setting i found an excellent idea. Set your goal and put it in a piece of paper in very few words so that you can save your time in reading it. This is an excellent idea. From time to time the goal should be compared against the actual work.

One Minute Praising is another concept of great benefit. This can be used to convey a positive message to the team members. But it need to be genuine and need to be immediately. Most of the manager wait for the appraisal to come. Then only employee feels it. Let the employee feel now. This technique builds the confidence i the employee, motivates them to do "better".

Similarly One Minute Reprimand, anything not as per the goal need to be addressed immediately and in a preset manner, and should be discouraged. In this case manager really need to be careful that the particular behavior of the employee need to be addressed not the employee's ability.

We can alwasy learn from good and "bad" managers both. From good we just need to learn "what to do", and from bad managers "what not"

I found this book to be very inspiring. And I like it because of its compact and easy to implement. Though I am not yet a manager, these concepts can be used at home, with family, as well as at work with my fellow employees - especially when we work together on projects. They can be even be used with the managers who currently supervise me. The principles are simple and universal. This is how I would want to be managed and this is the way I would l manage. Finally one word. a great book!