The New One Minute Manager: A Timeless Guide to Effective Leadership, Stress Reduction, and Success in a Rapidly Changing Workplace

The New One Minute Manager is a great book if you’re looking for a straightforward guide to leading people without overcomplicating things. What I liked most is how simple the principles are — one-minute goals, one-minute praises, and one-minute redirects. The book breaks each one down in a way that makes it easy to understand and even easier to start using immediately. The story format makes the lessons stick. Instead of feeling like a dense management manual, it reads more like a short parable with clear takeaways. It reminded me that good leadership doesn’t always need big systems or complicated strategies — sometimes the smallest, most consistent habits make the biggest difference. This book also made me reflect on how I communicate. The focus on being clear, direct, positive, and quick with feedback is something I’ve been trying to incorporate more. It also shows you how to reduce stress by setting expectations upfront instead of reacting to problems later. If there’s one drawback, it’s that the book is very short and stays at a high level. If you’re looking for deep explanations or detailed case studies, this isn’t that type of book. But as a leadership refresher or a starting point for someone new to managing people, it’s incredibly effective. Overall, The New One Minute Manager is a simple, practical, timeless guide that helps you lead more clearly and more confidently. A quick read with lessons that stick.

The book was solid and gave me good things to think about. Its worth a read even from the perspective of giving you some additional tools to work with. Even if you don't apply the thoughts 100% fully, it will definitely give most people something to take away especially about the development of your employees.

The three one-minute techniques: one-minute goals, one-minute praises, one-minute reprimands. One-minute goals are explicit goals, written on one sheet of paper, in 250 words or less. And then each worker shares their goals with their manager. These are really "one-page goals", not "one-minute goals". In my experience, it takes tens of minutes to write them, and several iterations to make them good and useful. Also, it helps to share them with more people. One company I worked for had us publish our goals on an internal web page so that everyone could co-ordinate better. Indeed, one-minute goals are strikingly similar to the OKR technique (Objectives and Key Results). However, as this book was first published in 1981, the authors deserve credit for describing this technique so early. The key point of one-minute praises is to give them as soon as the manager notices the praiseworthy behavior, not wait days or weeks or months. This way, the manager shows they are paying attention to the positives (people like to be noticed in a positive way), and the behavior-reward cycle is much tighter. And a key point of one-minute reprimands is: reprimand the behavior, not the person. All of this works much better for some people more than others. Of course, managers exercise choice about whom they hire. This book devotes only half of one page to hiring. My advice is to keep the other tenets of this book in mind when you are interviewing and hiring people, so that you hire people that work well in this framework. This book is short: 112 pages with small pages and a lot of white space. That's fine. However, it is written in the form of a parable. That makes it easy reading, but it means the book just blandly states that the One Minute Manager (who does not have a name) obviously has the most efficient division, the best employees that other divisions are constantly recruiting for their own managers, and so on. So take it with a grain of salt. Still, overall, this much good advice is worth reading. It won't take much time, and the cover price of a good book is negligible compared to the time you put into it and the insight you get out of it.

I enjoyed reading this book, even though it is similar to the book I read in college, but it's The Leadership and One Minute Manager. I may read it again in the future.

This book was a great read and really helps you in developing your leadership skills

Author: Ken Blanchard + Spencer Johnson The new one minute manager is an updated reprint of the previously tried and true The One Minute Manager. It was time to write an update for this new Agile generation. A lot of the tenants remain tried and true. And if you've read previous reviews of The One Minute Manager, or has actually read the first book, this edition and this review will be very familiar. Since the last book, the landscape of the industry has changed, but good management and good business remains the result of the same pillars of structure, efficiency, review, and course corrections. One Minute Goals One Minute Praise One Minute Redirects The most notable difference in the book is the slight change to the third pillar, now called One Minute Redirections. Almost a "correct then redirect" type of approach, the One Minute Redirections emphasize the need to communicate freely and directly, but more importantly with description on how the path that was chosen wasn’t a good path, and how it made the manager feel; finally ending with a compliment and a nudge towards the right direction. Overall, as a book, if you've read the first one, this one is just a slight change, and the overall message stays the same. However, the changes now provide a new generation of audience a little more relational information and I sincerely hope the book will continue to guide and provide good management skills for these new managers.

It's a short book but not short enough for the small amount of useful information it contains. The book imparts three core pieces of advice, and its good advice for sure but it's spoon-fed in a painfully slow manner in a short (and yet all too-long) story that is neither believable nor compelling. I could rattle off those three things here and nullify any need to purchase the book, but I would feel pretty rude doing that in addition to leaving a poor review. I want to stress that it is good advice but it's also really basic and self-evident, I kind of worry for the person who genuinely *needs* this book. There is no doubt that if I reflect and focus harder on those three things that I will be a better manager, but it wasn't things I wasn't already aware of or not already trying to do. I would think (hope?) that all managers are in my boat there. When it's on sale you can get your money's worth if you whip through it and then pass it along. Maybe its most useful to someone who has been suddenly blindsided and thrown into management, it will give them three simple things to try to focus on and if you can do those basics you can be a decent manager almost no matter what else is going on.

Reading this book was a great experience, from the starting page quote of "Help people reach their full potential. Catch them doing something right!" to the intermittent full-page quotes placed throughout, to the simple concepts conveyed through a fun and relatable story. First time I've read an entire book in one sitting in a while. I like how the story moved quickly enough so I never felt bored. I would highly recommend to anyone who is in leadership especially, but just in general I think everyone could benefit from reading this book.

Kindle edition is a absolute bargain. Concise read, can complete it in under an hour. Meaningful message. Clarity precedes mastery. Before we can do a good job, we and our boss need to be clear and aligned on what we're doing. Then regularly check in and look for some progress. Pretty obvious, but not followed.

Ottimo

Short and to the point. Practical examples you can apply today in your company. My team already benefited from it after reading it slowly in under a week and implementing daily with them.

It is great to read and reflect on the obvious management methods that are concisely described in this quick read.

Very insightful. Applied it asap with great success. Note it is a very short read but the value is not in the number of pages but their quality