Here are some points I have taken from the book “The One Minute Manager” about One Minute Management.

• Most companies spend more time and money on maintaining their buildings and equipment than they do on maintaining and developing people.
• In some organisations managers know what they want their people to do but these managers just tell their people in such ways assuming that their people should know want they want.
• Effective managers manager themselves and the people they work with so that both the organisation and the people profit from their presence.
• People who feel good about themselves produce good results. Helping people to feel good about themselves is a key to getting more things done.
• Most managers wait until their people do something right before they praise them. As a result, many people never get to become high performers because their managers concentrate on catching them doing things wrong.
• Be positive! When see someone doing something right, praise him or her. It is wrong to spend time catching people doing something wrong. Help people reach their full potential by catching them doing something right.
• Be sincere! Specifies exactly what people did right and be consistent in the praising.
• Remember that people are not pigeons. People are more complicated. They are aware and they able to think for themselves. They certainly do not want to be manipulated by another person. Respect is a key to good management.

Source: “The One Minute Manager” by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson. Published by HarperCollins Publishers Inc.