The One Minute Manager

I got this book on mid of 2015 before that I had no idea about this book & his author,shopkeeper requested me to read this. Basically I thought if the book doesn’t turn out interesting, at least it would let me fall asleep. But I was proven wrong. This book written in a story format. Opening pages aroused such kind of curiosity that it made me jump straight into it and I couldn’t keep it down unless I had read it up all. This book is only 111 pages and its dealing with management and leadership & this book sold 13 million copies.

The story begins with a young man searching out for an effective manager. His search leads him across the world and he keeps meeting managers who he categorizes into two types. – Autocratic who define themselves as hardnosed, realistic, profit-minded and who like to be on top of every situation. And Democratic who define themselves as participative, supportive, considerate and humanistic. – Both the breeds pride themselves in their result minded focus and people oriented focus respectively and this confused him. Why? Because the autocratic ones predictably had their companies prosper but also had higher turnover; while the democratic ones had happy employees around but company suffered. It was as if managers of the world were primarily interested either in results or in people.