The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey - Hardcover

Blanchard, Ken

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688067670 ISBN 13: 9780688067670

Publisher: William Morrow & Company, 1989

Synopsis

One simple idea can set you free: Don't take on a problem if it isn't yours! One of the most liberating books in the extraordinary One Minute Manager Library teaches managers an unforgettable lesson: how to have time to do what they want and need to do. The authors tell why managers who accept every problem given them by their staffs become hopeless bottlenecks. With a vivid, humorous, and too-familar scenario they show a manager loaded down by all the monkeys that have jumped from their rightful owners onto his back. Then step by step they show how managers can free themselves from doing everyone else's job and ensure that every problem is handled by the proper staff person. By using Oncken's Four Rules of Monkey Management managers will learn to become effective supervisors of time, energy, and talent -- especially their own.

If you have ever wondered why you are in the office on the weekends and your staff is on the golf course, The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey is for youit's priceless!

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Review:

"This book has an important message for all managers who wonder why they're working nights and weekends while their assistants are relaxing."--Rudolf Soloman, "San Francisco Examiner""Helpful, insightful...fits the one-minute theme perfectly."--"Booklist""Unbeliebable! Three of today's literary business giants have temaed up to write an all-time best seller for business people everywhere."--Charles "Red" Scott, President and CEO Intermark Inc. and The Trident Group Ltd."Bill Oncken's 'Managing Mangaement Time--Who's Got the Monkey?' story was profound, entertaining, and practical--lots of insights that can readily be incorporated into your life. I strongly recommend that you read "The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey."..a whole new dimension will be revealed to you."--Jack Linkletter, President Linkletter Enterprises Costa Mesa, California"Outstanding! Delightful reading and first-rate advice."--Forrest Patton, Author of "Psychology of Closing Sales; " President, Patton Communications Houston, Texas"The 'Monkey Story' humorously illustrates invaluable principles for managers at all levels, principles that can be put to use immediately."--Phil Pellegrino, Vice President of Sales, Oscar Mayer Food Corporation, Madison, Wisconsin

From the Back Cover:

That monkey could be someone else's problem!

This book, one of the most liberating in the extraordinary One Minute Manager Library, teaches an unforgettable lesson: how to save time to do what you want and need to do. Step by step the authors show how managers can free themselves from doing everyone else's job and ensure that every problem is handled by the proper person. By using the Four Rules of Monkey Management, managers will learn to become effective supervisors of time, energy and talent – especially their own.

"With humour and logic the authors describe the delicate business of assigning monkeys to the right masters and keeping them healthy...Can lead to effective delegation"
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0688067670
• ISBN 13: 9780688067670
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144