Summary Of One Minute Manager

The theme of the book was very simple, a young man was observing how managers work and he was in search for an effective manager. He eventually found an effective manager and wanted to know his secrets. The only thing that the effective manager told the young man is that he is called the “one minute manager.” But the problem was that the one minute manager would not tell the young man his secrets. The young man had to meet with the workers that report to the one minute manager to figure out his secrets. The young man met with three of the workers, and each of those workers had nearly the same response to every question that the young man asked. The one minute manager has three secrets, and the young man got a grasp on all three of those secrets …show more content…
The one minute manager focuses a lot on being efficient and effective with his goals. The management process includes: planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Planning and organizing fit into the first secret, one minute goals. When creating one minute goals, workers plan and organize to see if the goal will work to help the organization. To be organized, everyone must be on the same page. Leading would fit into the category of one minute praising. When praising a person, it motivates them to achieve the overall main goal of a situation. Controlling would go into the one minute reprimand section. When reprimanding a worker, the one minute manager will immediately go to that worker and take corrective action to make sure that the error or mistake will not happen again. The one minute manager has extremely good human skills. Human skills or “soft skills” are the ability to interact with people, cooperate with others to get things done, ability to motivate, inspire, trust, and communicate. The one minute manager cooperates with others to get things done by praising workers when performing well, he also motivates and inspires whenever he praises them too. The process of the three secrets corresponds very similarly with the five step process of strategic management process. The first step is establishing the mission and vision, which ties into one minute goals. The fifth step, maintain strategic control would fit into the second and third secrets of the one minute manager. When maintaining strategic control, feedback in effect, and praising and reprimanding is feedback to a