Jonathan Livingston Seagull Jonathan Livingston Seagull Jonathan Livingston Seagull, written by Richard Bach and illustrated by Russell Munson, is a fable in novella form about a seagull who is trying to learn about life and flight, and a homily about self-perfection. Bach wrote it as a series of short stories that were published in "Flying" magazine in the late 1960s. It was first published in book form in 1970, and by the end of 1972 over a million copies were in print. "Reader's Digest" published a condensed version, and the book reached the top of the "New York Times" Best Seller list, where
Seagull manager Seagull manager Seagull management is a management style wherein a manager only interacts with employees when they deem a problem has arisen. The perception is that such a management style involves hasty decisions about things of which they have little understanding, resulting in a messy situation with which others must deal. The term became popular through a joke in Ken Blanchard's 1985 book "Leadership and the One Minute Manager": "Seagull managers fly in, make a lot of noise, dump on everyone, then fly out." As seagull managers only interact with employees when there is a problem, they rarely offer praise