But while things got a little better for a while and he managed to take on even more work, he ultimately ended up with the same problem, just doing more work.
He also tells him that he even already attended a time management seminar. During the lunch, the new manager tells him about his current situation and more specifically tells him stories about how he works together with his subordinates. Surprising to our new manager, his boss tells him to take care of this himself and only gives him the advice that it is his job to get his subordinates ready.Īt this desperate moment our protagonist meets the “The One Minute Manager” - we already know from the first book - for lunch to seek his help. At this point he realizes, he needs to change something.Īs a first step, he approaches his boss and tells her about his situation and the fact that he constantly has to do the job of his subordinates too. He constantly ends up working late and throughout weekends and because of that does not see his family any more. Thus, while drowning in monkeys, he has less and less time for his own work. His behavior ends in a downward spiral where he increasingly receives monkeys of his subordinates. Or, as we later learn in the book, they start to give their “ monkeys” (=next moves, more on that in a bit) away to our poor new manager, who becomes the official owner of them. He does so because he often believes his subordinates are just too inexperienced at times, which is why thinks that he “has” to intervene.īy doing so, he sends his subordinate the message that it is ok to go to him and “ask for his help”. The problem? Our new manager more and more takes on tasks of his subordinates. That formula seems to be working in reverse now
In those days, the longer and harder I worked, the more I got done. However, after a while, the reverse happens and their performance degrades. In the beginning, he and his team start into this new situation with drive and motivation and things seem to work out. Let’s call him the “new manager”, who after working hard and celebrating successes as an individual, gets promoted to a management position. Thus, I thought to myself, why not do it again? The “new manager”
#Mokey notes free
Since then I needed to read another related book during my onboarding here at Dynatrace, called “The One Minute Manager meets the monkey”: Free up your time and deal with priorities”. A few weeks ago I did my first book summary of the famous The One Minute Manager, which was also co-authored by Ken Blanchard.
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