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The One Minute Manager is the most effective and practical management book you have ever read. Contains rich resources for self-management and team management. The content of this book revolves around the theme of “people”, who are believed to be the most important resources of almost any company. Transforming employees through love and service is the main concept of this book. When we start to read it, we will realize that we are only reading a book full of love and wisdom.
For people working in business, you will learn a lot of deep knowledge about management and deeply understand what management is after reading. He also teaches how to be a good employee through his 3 secrets on how to be a great and respectful manager. I think we will learn a lot about smart business management after reading this book.
The first secret of management is setting goals in a minute. I think a lot of people have realized its importance. While setting one-minute goals is a lot more than we probably think, because setting a goal for your homework is only part of setting one-minute goals. Also, there are two other important parts. First, we should have a measure for our goal. We need to make sure we have set a good goal, if we cannot guarantee that we have set a good goal, how can we guarantee that the result of our assignment will be? After we have had the measurement or our goal, we can easily know that the goal we set is good or not. Second, after we finish setting a good goal, we still need to make sure that our actions follow this goal or not. If our actions do not follow our goal, our goal will not be useful for our allocation. Then, we must correct our actions and make sure that what we do can bring the good result that we are looking for.
The second secret of management is praise in a minute. Our general understanding of praise is to use our words to edify people and help them move forward. While the praise in this book is much more meaningful than we might initially suppose, after reading it we will know how to offer praise in a way that significantly benefits and influences people’s lives. This book shared an important specific praise position. Specific praise is very powerful and persuasive. When we give a specific praise, people will believe that our praise comes from our hearts and they will be very encouraged. We must always remember one thing before we give praise: observe the people we will praise when we give our praises. Find out what area they are doing well in and then give them our heartfelt praise. We can help you know in which area you are doing well by doing this and your confidence will be greatly strengthened. They will also find their own worth and know how to be self-managed after finding their own position. Through reading this book, we will have the knowledge on how to use praise as a tool to influence people’s lives. Praise is often used a lot for managers to cheer on inexperienced staff and new hires at a company.
The third management secret is one-minute reprimands. Reprimands can be a useful and sometimes necessary tool to inspire people to move on if we praise with our love and use it wisely. This is a very new point that I have learned in this book. We have different ways of showing our love, but different ways perform different functions when used in different situations. It will be good to give a minute of reprimand to mature or experienced staff, because they already know their value and position. When they make mistakes, this is a good way to suppress them for a minute. We must make them feel our feelings towards the mistakes they made, also let them know our high expectations regarding the tasks they have been assigned, and let them know that we have a very high opinion of them. At the same time, it is essential that we do not neglect the use of appropriate actions that show our love. And always remember, giving a one-minute reprimand is not to pour out our anger on them, but to help them grow. Remember to reprimand the behavior and not the person.
One Minute Manager is a good book to help us grow mature and succeed. The more knowledge we apply to use it, the more fruitful result we will see. I hope you benefit and succeed in learning this book. Health!