Name: The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey
ISBN: 9780688103804

Kenneth H. Blanchard

Hal Burrows

William Oncken

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 experts: how managers can meet their own priorities, give back other people's monkeys, and let them solve their own problems.

The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey

Andrew Canion

Great principles that align closely with GTD and the principles expressed in “Turn This Ship Around!”. The writing is somewhat twee and dated, and the examples of having a secretary haven’t aged well, but the concepts are solid.

Nitin Khanna

Overview: One simple idea can set you free: Don't take on a problem if it isn't yours! One of the most liberating books in the extraordinary One Minute Manager Library teaches managers an unforgettable lesson: how to have time to do what they want and need to do. The authors tell why managers who accept every problem given them by their staffs become hopeless bottlenecks. With a vivid, humorous, and too-familiar scenario they show a manager loaded down by all the monkeys that have jumped from their rightful owners onto his back. Then step by step they show how managers can free themselves from doing everyone else's job and ensure that every problem is handled by the proper staff person. By using Oncken's Four Rules of Monkey Management managers will learn to become effective supervisors of time, energy, and talent -- especially their own.