When two minutes is too long!

Breezed through 'the one minute manager' by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson. A very interesting book, written on the premise that the common management functions of goal setting, getting team buy in, monitoring and the reward/reprimand activities can be performed in a minute or less.

In our daily work lives we come across many situations where we dawdle so long that the point gets lost. We are often verbose and end up confusing all parties concerned. This book details how to get around this problem and maximise our productivity (the magic word!) and deliver that manna.. more time to spend on things that are really important in our lives like family and investing time on ourselves.

My beef with this is that the solutions offered are too simplistic, it does not take into account the dynamics of the communication between the manager and the report and also does not deal with personality types. Another gap is that it does not take into account the priority of the situation or the inevitable conflicts and their resolution.

My 2 paise - start off with this technique and play it by ear.