Book 5


This is the latest addition to the "One Minute Manager" series. A monkey is a problem to be solved, and the message of the book is "don't take on other peoples problems" - put the monkey back on the shoulders where it belongs. The authors show step by step how a manager weighed down by all the monkeys that have jumped from their rightful owners onto his back can free himself to become an effective supervisor of time, energy and talent.

With more than two million hardcover copies in print, THE ONE MINUTE MANAGER is one of the most successful management books ever published. In this life-changing audiobook, Blanchard and Johnson, author of the international bestseller WHO MOVED MY CHEESE?, provide listeners with effective management strategies that save time and increase productivity- whether in business, at home or even managing children. Deceptively simple and measurably effective, the secrets of one- minute management will help boost profits, productivity and sense of purpose immediately.

"The One Minute Manager" introduced three secrets of management: "One Minute Goal-Setting", "One Minute Praisings" and "One Minute Reprimands". Now told in Ken Blanchard's signature breezy style, this business parable - the fourth secret of the "One Minute Manager" - presents a concept that, implemented properly, is one of the most powerful actions for improving company and employee morale. Step by step, Blanchard teaches readers how to accept responsibility for their errors and to deal with the cause of the damage while maintaining their integrity.

With 50 to 90% of most managers' time spent in some form of group activity, the concept of teamwork is more important than ever before. The advice in this book is designed to increase any working groups' productivity and satisfaction. The book explains how all groups move through four stages of development on their way to becoming a high performing team - orientation, dissatisfaction, resolution and production.

The One Minute Golfer

by Ken Blanchard

Published 17 March 1999
Tried-and-tested techniques for enjoying the great game more. The One Minute Manager is a book that has sold a staggering 12 million copies in 27 languages and has become the world's most popular management method. Ten years ago, its co-author Ken Blanchard applied his winning approach to his other favourite subject, founding The Golf University in San Diego and penning this fool-proof bestselling book. Now published outside the USA for the first time, The One Minute Golfer contains a series of tried-and-tested techniques for improving your game. Ken Blanchard explains how you can take the same methods that are highly effective in business and adapt them with astonishing success to the golf course. Using training techniques that have been tested with players from beginners to low handicappers, The One Minute Golfer shows how simple exercises in clear thinking and a positive mental attitude will heighten your enjoyment of golf while also improving your game.

An invaluable source of guidance for helping leaders to attain high performance with integrity. Transform your workplace with a few simple tools.

Told in the parable format of The One Minute Manager , Leadership by the Book draws on the model and messages of Jesus as a source of practical lessons in effective leadership.

Recounting the story of a teacher, a minister and a marketplace leader who support one another in their leadership challenges, this extraordinary book offers unexpected and exceptional answers to tough leadership issues such as:

* How do I best serve our customers by serving our people?
* How can I unify my personal beliefs and my role as a leader in a way that feels good `deep down' and still produces the desired results?
* How can I get customers who enjoy the service, staff who enjoy their work, and still get financial well-being by leading with integrity?

The authors offer simple strategies for bringing vision - and values - to the workplace by examining messages and examples from the Bible. Leadership by the Book also provides lessons for the day-to-day life of parents, coaches, entrepreneurs and religious and community leaders everywhere.


The One Minute Father

by Spencer Johnson

Published 15 September 1983

Previously unpublished in the UK, this book shows how fathers can balance demands on their time to become the better parents to their children that they want to be and that their children deserve.

With the pressures of 21st century working life an everyday topic of news and conversation, effective and rewarding advice for parents is more important than ever. The One Minute Father has become a buzzword of the current age, and this book is the quickest way to help your children learn to like themselves and to behave.

Incorporating One Minute Praisings, One Minute Goals and One Minute Reprimands, the book helps both father and children develop confidence, happiness and satisfaction in their relationships. The same tell-a-simple-story approach works here as in the other Blanchard and Johnson books which have become a worldwide phenomenon. A man who sees that he has been a better provider than parent learns by trial and error how to be more nurturing.


The One-Minute Mother

by Spencer Johnson

Published 13 September 1984

Previously unpublished in the UK, this book by best-selling co-author of The One Minute Manager and author of Who Moved My Cheese? shows the quickest way for mothers to help their children learn to like themselves and want to behave themselves.

With the pressures of 21st century working life an everyday topic of news and conversation, this book addresses the fundamental question of how to be a better mother. Adopting the same tell-a-simple-story approach as the other Blanchard and Johnson books, the story shows how to reach your own potential while helping your children reach theirs, how to develop their self-esteem and responsibility, and how to communicate effectively and enjoy one another more as a family.

Not only a 'how-to' for making time for your child, it also improves every second spent with them. This will be particularly useful to mothers of school-age children helping them empathize with their children and strengthen the parent-child bond.


With a new foreword by Ken Blanchard The original, bestselling blockbuster which has transformed businesses world wide. The blockbuster number one international bestselling phenomenon is back ...not that it ever really went away. This easily-read story quickly demonstrates three very practical management techniques: One Minute Goals, One Minute Praisings and One Minute Reprimands. The One Minute Manager also includes information on several studies in medicine and in the behavioural sciences, which help readers understand why these apparently simple methods work so well with so many people. The book is brief, the language is simple, and best of all ...it works.

With a new foreword by Ken Blanchard

The original, bestselling blockbuster which has transformed businesses world wide.

The blockbuster number one international bestselling phenomenon is back ... not that it ever really went away. This easily-read story quickly demonstrates three very practical management techniques: One Minute Goals, One Minute Praisings and One Minute Reprimands.

The One Minute Manager also includes information on several studies in medicine and in the behavioural sciences, which help readers understand why these apparently simple methods work so well with so many people. The book is brief, the language is simple, and best of all ... it works.


Blanchard and company combines two popular, bestselling programs into a one-of-a-kind audio to promote the P-R-I-C-E system for defining goals.

Teaches how to apply the secrets of One Minute Manager to have customers falling over themselves to buy your product.

Spencer Johnson - author of Number one bestselling business book Who Moved My Cheese? and business guru Larry Wilson teach the principles of the One Minute Manager to the sales-person in this motivational business book.

Practical advice is offered to help the struggling salesman - covering useful pointers for how to behave such as :treat customers like people, listen carefully to their needs, use after-sale calls to generate good will and referrals; as well as motivational, confidence boosting tricks which help bring sales to completion with minimum of effort.

Spencer and Larry prove that bad track records can be smashed by applying the simple techniques learnt here and by "helping people...to feel good about what they buy." Creating positive mental states in the customer and the salesperson provides the right environment for a sale.

This book is the quick., easy and fun way to achieve success in sales.


Little Book of Coaching

by Ken Blanchard and Don Shula

Published 23 January 2001
Bestselling author of The One Minute Manager and legendary NFL coach team up together to share their secrets for inspiring others to greatness. For more than thirty years renowned business consultant and top selling author Ken Blanchard, and legendary NFL coach Don Shula, have motivated teams to achieve excellence. At the heart of the book is a simple acronym that describes the qualities of an effective leader: C onviction-drive - Never compromise your beliefs O verlearning - Practice until it's perfect A udible-ready - Know when to change C onsistency - Respond predictably to performance H onesty-based - Walk your talk. Using a highly effective 'tag-team' approach, Blanchard and Shula impart the five leadership secrets behind this acronym: Shula explains how each coach concept works on the field, and then Blanchard explains how you can apply each concept to a leadership situation.

With a new foreword by Ken Blanchard

Adapting One Minute Manager techniques to enable successful leadership to happen. Using different ways to motivate different kinds of people.

Leadership and The One Minute Manager goes straight to the heart of management as it describes the effective, adaptive styles of Situational Leadership. In clear and simple terms it teaches how to become a flexible and successful leader, fitting your style to the needs of the individual and to the situation at hand, and using the One Minute Manager techniques to enhance the motivation of others.



How to apply the key techniques learnt in One-Minute Manager. This is the companion to the original blockbuster bestseller which has transformed businesses around the world.

This is the essential companion volume to The One Minute Manager, the international bestseller praised by top managers around the world.

This book shows how the One Minute management techniques can be applied on a day-to-day basis to improve performance, productivity and profits. Their message is that there is no ‘quick fix’. The keys to successful management are conviction and consistency.

Putting the One Minute Manager to Work is essential reading for all those who aspire to management, and to managing well.


The One-Minute Teacher

by Spencer Johnson

Published 1 September 1986

By best-selling co-author of The One Minute Manager and author of Who Moved My Cheese?, this book shows how to teach others to teach themselves and inspire a love of learning.

Dr Spencer Johnson's pioneering work in unleashing potential through better communication is most evident from his bestselling books, among them The One Minute Manager, The One Minute Mother, Who Moved My Cheese? and The Present. Combining his insight with the skills of life-long teacher Constance Johnson, this book offers an invaluable new strategy for learning.

Despite the many difficulties they face adapting to new directives, individual teachers still make huge contributions to their students' lives. In this book, Johnson and Johnson describe how the use of Goal Setting, Praising and Recovery reinforces self-esteem and creates a new kind of learning process that will last a lifetime. Practical, wise and useful in a range of everyday situations, The One Minute Teacher reveals simple, positive ways to

* Discover and instil the love of learning
* Foster success and achievement
* Feel more confident and happy
* Bring out the best in ourselves and others.


One Minute For Yourself

by Spencer Johnson

Published 16 September 1998

By best-selling co-author of The One Minute Manager and author of Who Moved My Cheese?, this book shows how to bring out the best in yourself in a time-starved world.

Life is lived minute by minute. Does time seems too precious to lavish on yourself? Using his world-famous One Minute programme, number one bestselling author Dr Spencer Johnson reveals easy ways to bring out the best in yourself.

* Reduce stress at work and at home
* Enjoy a sense of peace and balance
* Have more business and personal success
* Take better care of yourself and encourage others to do the same

With the practical wisdom that characterises all of his books, Dr Johnson shows how stopping and taking a minute out of the day can make life more meaningful and enjoyable - for you and those near you.

Spencer Johnson is an internationally bestselling author whose books have helped millions of people discover healthier lifestyles with more success and less stress. Including The One Minute Manager, The One Minute Sales Person, The One Minute Father and Who Moved My Cheese?, more than 13 million copies of Dr Johnson's books are in use in 24 languages.


The team-building book for the 21st Century.

The author of One Minute Manager proves, with a parable, the guiding notion that "none of us is as smart as all of us". Ken Blanchard, author of The One Minute Manager, and his co-authors, do here for teamwork what Gung Ho! does for motivation and Raving Fans for Customer Service.

Using the entertaining and easily-digested parable style that made those books so successful, Blanchard et al have a simple but very powerful message to convey. They disclose four management secrets and highlight the key principles of "repeated reward and repetition".

The story is about Alan, who gets fired, despite being highly successful, because of his lone wolf mentality. He breaks through his initial resistance to new ways of working by spending some of the new-found time on his hands coaching his son's hockey team, and in the process learns all about the power of teamwork.

An inspirational guide to the art of working successfully together (and the power that derives from being part of a team), this is an invaluable read for anyone who has to work with other people, from one of the world's most successful business authors.