The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey

by Kenneth H. Blanchard, William Oncken Jr., Hal Burrows

When a person goes to the boss with a problem and the boss agrees to do something about it, the monkey is off his back and onto the boss's. How can managers avoid these leaping monkeys? Here is priceless advice from three famous how managers can meet their own priorities, give back other people's monkeys, and let them solve their own problems

Genres: Business

184 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 1, 2022

About the author

Ken Blanchard, one of the most influential leadership experts in the world, is the coauthor of the iconic bestseller, The One Minute Manager, and 60 other books whose combined sales total more than 21 million copies. His groundbreaking works have been translated into more than 27 languages and in 2005 he was inducted into Amazon’s Hall of Fame as one of the top 25 bestselling authors of all time.

Ken is also the cofounder and chief spiritual officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies®, an international management training and consulting firm that he and his wife, Margie Blanchard, began in 1979 in San Diego, California.

When he’s not writing or speaking, Ken also spends time teaching students in the Master of Science in Executive Leadership Program at the University of San Diego. Ken can be found at www.kenblanchard.com.

Reviews

[Madison Warner Fairbanks · Rating 4 out of 5]

The One Minute Manger Meets the Monkey by Ken Blanchard
This book follows the series format of short chapters, wide margins and story examples that makes concepts easy to read and understand.
In this version, the management concept written originally by Bill Oncken Jr for HBR in 1974 is merged with the One Minute Manager style. Basically to let the assigned worker do their own work and not let it get transferred back to the manager’s desk.
Some of the examples are a bit dated but the overall concept is good. It’s about responsibility and accountability at the lowest level possible.

[John Tetteroo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Are you trying to give the monkey to me? Was a question that became popular among middlemanagers that had been on a organisation prescribed training during the early years of the 21th century. It was actually a derogatory way of speaking of problems that people came bringing to your office in hopes of leaving them in your care to solve them.

As with all these books it is an insight from experience that makes total common sense and is often being presented as a silver bullet in much to many words, sentences and anecdotes. This little book is graciously short and is mercifully devoid of pagefilling, bookswelling fluff. The insights are presented in a concise manner and do not take to much of your time.

So if you are a middlemanager drowning in work and clutching for time, read this small tome. It will help you, truly it will. It will also leave you with some images in your mind that are very hard to shake so as to anchor the insight deep within your brain. If you already know about the monkeys, then go on delegating you guru you...

[Raj Vaidyanathan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Insightful context

Helped with a new perspective of management. Relateable examples and easy to implement in everyday practice. Overall an insightful and practical context.

[Mohamed Farouk · Rating 4 out of 5]

Helped me a lot. Very easy read finished it in one day. I really enjoyed it. The only reason why it’s not 5 star is because it didn’t really blow me away, but definitely help me a lot in developing my self.

[Swati Vasudev · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautifully written book. I loved every page of it.