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StoryShots Summary and Analysis of The New One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson

Ken Blanchard’s Perspective

Ken Blanchard is the co-founder and Chief Spiritual Officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies. He is a renowned speaker, author, consultant and trustee emeritus of the Board of Trustees at Cornell University. He also teaches the Master of Science in Executive Leadership Program at the University of San Diego. His books are available in more than 42 languages. In 2005, Ken joined Amazon’s Hall of Fame as one of the top 25 best-selling authors of all time.

Spencer Johnson’s Perspective

Spencer Johnson was a co-inventor of cardiac pacemakers. He was also a consultant to the Center for Study of the Person and Leadership Fellow at the Harvard Business School. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from the University of Southern California in 1963 and a medical degree from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He worked at the Harvard Business School and the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Johnson’s books are available in twenty-six languages. His most famous book is Who Moved My Cheese?

Introduction to The One Minute Manager

The New One Minute Manager builds on the foundation laid by the management classic, The One Minute Manager. The One Minute Manager was first published in 1981. The new book develops the ideas from the first book, recognizing the need for change due to how technology has advanced over the years. The world is a different place from how it was back then. You will learn three practical secrets for leading others by taking modern work styles into account. 

#1: The First Secret is One Minute Goals

“He feels that a goal and its performance standard—what needs to be done and by what due date—should take no more than a paragraph or two to express, so it can be read and reviewed in about a minute.” — Ken Blanchard

Learning how to set one-minute goals is the beginning of one-minute management. Your one-minute goals should only include your top priorities. The easiest way to identify this is to use the 80/20 rule. So, you should find the activities that take 20% of your time but provide you with 80% of the total results. These tasks should then be your focus for one-minute goals.

One-minute goals are always important, but there are five ways you can improve the outcome of these goals:

1. Plan the goals together. When you do this, try to describe them briefly and clearly. You should also clearly define the outcomes you want by stating what you think good performance is.
2. Each person should write their goals with due dates on a single page. This will act as a prompt and encourage them to work toward deadlines. 
3. Ask your colleagues to review their most important goals every single day. This will only take them a few minutes per day but will have a significant impact.
4. After revision, encourage your colleagues to consider their current approaches. They need to decide whether they match their goals.
5. If your colleagues cannot notice their shortcomings, you must help them rethink what they are doing to realize their goals.

#2: The Second Secret is One Minute Praising

Editor's Note: This episode was first published in March 2022.

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