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"The One Minute Manager Meets The Monkey" - College Essays

"The One Minute Manager Meets The Monkey"

I am going to relate the suggestion in the book to the setting I am
most familiar with; a bookkeeping department of a medium sized commercial
bank, and the relationship between that supervisor and myself. I have
noticed that a few of the suggestion mentioned would make the department
run more smoothly on a day to day basis. The key areas of time management
and monkey (task) management are necessary in many, if not all, business
settings today.
"For every Monkey their are two parties involved, one to work it
and one to supervise it." (p. 29) In order for the department to run
efficiently the monkey or task must be done by the subordinates and
supervised by the supervisor, if the ...

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have time to do supervisory functions. (p.
30) If they are busy doing everyone else's work who is going to do theirs.
Once the supervisor puts the work back on the workers it belongs to
she needs to make sure everything is going according to plan. This can be
accomplished by following the 4 "Rules of Monkey Management." (p. 59) Make
sure that the "next moves" are set before you let the subordinate go with a
project. If my supervisor gave me a project to work on and I just left her
office without agreeing on what to do, I would just sit in my office and
waste time wondering what to do first. If my supervisor and I agree on
what to do first, the objective is clear and my supervisor is knowledgeable
of my activities. (p. 63)
Before the supervisor releases all of the work to the subordinate
the work needs to be assigned to the proper people. Maybe some of my
project would be more suited to my supervisor. On one of my present
projects I am dealing with the proof and bookkeeping ...

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