Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3498 in Books
• Published on: 2000-12-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 133 pages

Synopsis
How management can effectively rid themselves of 'monkeys' -- other people's responsibilities that cling to them and prevent them managing efficiently. This book explains in simple-minded if abstract terms how to achieve a balance between supervision and delegation for reduced tension and improved productivity in the work-place. "There is a high correlation between self-reliance and morale," stress the authors. With humor and logic they describe the delicate business of assigning monkeys to the right masters and keeping them healthy, i. e. , fed and cared for: " ...if monkeys are managed properly, you don't have to manage people so much.

Customer Reviews

How did I survive without this book?
To say this book accurately reflects the common delegation and mgmt pitfalls that I and most new managers fall into is an understatement.

I read this book at the weekend, and for the first time in weeks i'm actually enjoying being in work.

A "MUST READ" for any manager who's feeling their quality life is being wrecked by too much work.

This book may well just save my sanity :-)

Be more effective
This was my first read of The One Minute series.

I have also read some other books about time management, and I have to agree with the author that this book is somewhat different.

All the other books tell you how to make the same things but faster - in less time. But, if you are already doing wrong things, the increase of speed will only make you do more wrong things.

Basically, you can easily increase your efficiency, but if your effectiveness remains low, time problems will not go way. For me this was the main message of this book.

The book tells a story, so is a very easy read, and very enjoyable one to!

Shows you how things could and should be....
thought this was an excellent book. As with the others in this series it's a bit American but despite that contains some good stuff.

The main thing I got from the book is a sight of how things should be in terms of an effectively delegated workload. Then that is sufficiently motivating that you can pick up some of the techniques and systems that are suggested to start working towards that. I don't think there is any overnight fix to this kind of thing, which is why the mix of pragmatic stuff to do today and the vision of how things should be is a powerful mix.

Any book you can read in a quick burst and contains one or two thought provoking and applicable ideas has got to be good value.