My Sedentary Lifestyle.

I just finished reading The One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson. I learned about this book from the works of Tony Robbins, Jim Rohn, and other authors that I respect. I saw this book in National Bookstore and PowerBooks many times and have avoided reading it. Primarily, because it sounded so instructional and secondly, the book's title made it look like that this book is only for managers. As a "not-manager" it made me feel that I will not relate to this book (but I was wrong). But then I kept on hearing Ken Blanchard's name and The One Minute Manager being referred to by some authors I really respected. I also enjoyed reading, "Who Moved my Cheese" by Dr. Spencer Johnson so I ended up reading it. And I did not regret ever taking time to read it. The content is very simple and workable. And it's delivered in a story-type format so it's not boring and it did not sound so instructional.

The book started with a young man wanting to find an "effective manager" but failed to find one. He often meet "autocratic" or "democratic " managers who he refers as "half-managers". Until met a manager who has very interesting management style. The manager calls his style One Minute Management. Let me share to you the three secrets of the One Minute Manager:
The First Secret: One Minute Goals
The Second Secret: One Minute Praisings
The Third Secret: One Minute Reprimands

If you want to know more about them then I suggest you buy the book.:-)
The One Minute Manager also explained why these secrets works. This book are for people who are handling people like managers, supervisors and teamleaders. I can relate this book to Top Performance by Zig Ziglar where Zig really got my attention when he talked about giving feedback, praising and reprimand. So if you've read Top Performance you will love The One Minute Manger.

This book is a gem so I encourage managers and teamleads to read this book.:-)