Synopsis
The One Minute Manager is a book by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson. According to Blanchard's website, it has sold more than 13 million copies and has been translated into 37 languages. The brief volume tells a story, recounting three techniques of an effective manager: one-minute goals, one-minute praisings and one-minute reprimands. Each of these takes only a minute but is purportedly of lasting benefit. It was followed by a series of sequels, including Leadership and the One Minute Manager, by Ken Blanchard, Patricia Zigarmi and Drea Zigarmi, which laid out Blanchard's Situational Leadership II concept.
About the Author
Kenneth Hartley Blanchard (born May 6, 1939) is an American Author and management expert. His book The One Minute Manager (co-Authored with Spencer Johnson) has sold over 13 million copies and has been translated into 37 languages. He has coAuthored over 30 other best-selling books, including Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach To Customer Service (1993), Blanchard is the Chief Spiritual Officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies,[4] an international management training and consulting firm that he and his wife, Marjorie Blanchard, cofounded in 1979 in San Diego, California. Nilanjana Sudeshna Jhumpa Lahiri (born on July 11, 1967) is an Indian Bengali American Author. Lahiri's debut short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies (1999), won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and her first novel, The Namesake (2003), was adapted into the popular film of the same name. She was born Nilanjana Sudeshna but goes by her nickname (or in Bengali, her Daak naam) Jhumpa Lahiri is a member of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, appointed by U.S. President Barack Obama. Her book The Lowland, published in 2013, was a nominee for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award for Fiction. Lahiri is currently a professor of creative writing at Princeton University.
