The One Minute Manager The One Minute Manager The One Minute Manager is a very short book by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson. The brief volume tells a story, recounting three techniques of an effective manager: one-minute goals, one-minute praisings and one-minute reprimands. Each of these takes only a minute but is purportedly of lasting benefit. It was followed by a sequel, "Leadership and the One Minute Manager", by Ken Blanchard, Patricia Zigarmi and Drea Zigarmi, which laid out Blanchard's Situational Leadership II concept. The concept has been called a management fad, and derivative of management by objectives, itself derived from the business planning
The Nautical Almanac The Nautical Almanac The Nautical Almanac has been the familiar name for a series of official British almanacs published under various titles since the first issue of "The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris", for 1767: this was the first nautical almanac to contain data dedicated to the convenient determination of longitude at sea. It was originally published from the Royal Greenwich Observatory in England. A detailed account of how the publication was produced in its earliest years has been published by the National Maritime Museum. Since 1958 (with the issue for the year 1960), [[Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office]] and