At a glance
- Review
Politics, governance and authority
Summary
The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey, a joint work by Kenneth Blanchard and William Oncken on the delegation theory known as the monkey laws 1.
Its publication story as al-Suwaidan tells it
Al-Suwaidan says Oncken published the idea as an article in the Harvard Business Review, then turned it into a book that every publisher rejected; he applied the rule 'if you cannot succeed alone, attach yourself to someone successful' and went to Blanchard of The One Minute Manager, who wrote a three-page foreword stating that he had written nothing else of the book; it was issued under both names, spread, made its real author famous and was turned into a film 2 3 4. Its content is the 'monkey laws': the monkey is the next step in any work; see The monkey laws and delegation 5.
Connections
- Authored by
- Kenneth Blanchard· William Oncken
People and things also explored
Kenneth Blanchard· William Oncken· Ahl al-Diwan (those paid from the state register of soldiers and officers, and the rules of their conditions and distribution)· Ahl al-Hall wa al-Aqd (those who loose and bind: the men of power whose choice confirms the imam)· Ahl al-Mahalla (the people of a quarter, their imam, call to prayer, and their part in the oath and blood money where a body is found)· Islamic management· Experience versus service, and self-development· The nominal group technique
Sources
- Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Administrative Processus Abilities, episode 3, at 00:28:30 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
- Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Administrative Processus Abilities, episode 3, at 00:21:30 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
- Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Administrative Processus Abilities, episode 3, at 00:28:00 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
- Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Administrative Processus Abilities, episode 3, at 00:29:00 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
- Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Administrative Processus Abilities, episode 3, at 00:29:30 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
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islam.museum contributors. “The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/work/one-minute-manager-meets-the-monkey/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-26.