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What it argues
The New One Minute Manager is a 2015 update to Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson's 1982 classic, rewritten to account for flatter organizations, collaborative work environments, and the shift from managers as controllers to managers as enablers. The core framework remains unchanged: three management secrets — One Minute Goals, One Minute Praisings, and One Minute Re-Directs (previously One Minute Reprimands) — delivered in a parable format that makes the ideas easy to remember and immediately actionable.
One Minute Goals means making sure each person knows what they're supposed to do, has agreed to the goal, and can restate it on a single page. The idea is that most performance problems are really goal-clarity problems. One Minute Praisings are brief, immediate, specific acknowledgments of good work — not annual reviews or vague encouragement, but thirty seconds of genuine acknowledgment immediately after someone does something right. One Minute Re-Directs are equally brief, specific, and focused on the behavior not the person: you name what happened, say how it made you feel, pause, then confirm the person's competence and affirm the relationship.
What it gets right
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Most performance problems are goal-clarity problems. If people don't know what good looks like, feedback is useless.
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One Minute Goals: each goal fits on a single page, is agreed to, and the person can restate it in their own words. Review it regularly, not just at annual appraisal time.
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One Minute Praisings work because they are immediate and specific. Generic praise after the fact doesn't change behavior; specific feedback right after the behavior does.
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Who wrote it
Kenneth Blanchard is a leadership author and management consultant who has written more than sixty books with combined sales of over twenty million copies. His other works include Leadership and the One Minute Manager, Gung Ho!, and Leading at a Higher Level. Spencer Johnson was a physician and author best known for Who Moved My Cheese? and The Present. The two co-wrote the original One Minute Manager in 1982, and Blanchard updated it in 2015 as The New One Minute Manager, a year before Johnson's death in 2017.
