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More Than a Minute: How to Be an Effective Leader and Manager in Today's Changing World

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Unlike many leadership and strategy books, More than a Minute includes an array of straightforward tools and techniques that enable readers to put strategic principals into practice. Five stars!

This book is an excellent frame for strategic planning and execution. From the perspective of a strategist and business coach, I find it interesting because More Than a Minute follows so much of what I do in my practice... I could give it to prospects and say "this is what we're going to do". I think the audience is one where they are theoretical about wanting to learn about strategic planning and implement what they learn. There are so many good sections of questions and other tables in the book that you can start using tomorrow... very practical and useful.

If you're looking for a fresh approach to effective leadership, look no further, this is it! In More Than a Minute, Holly G. Green walks the reader through the complex world of management and breaks it down into easy to follow steps complete with tools for implementation and checklists to ensure success. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to improve their leadership skills!

More Than A Minute is an excellent tool to support your organization's planning and goal-setting exercises. After reading the book, we purchased a copy for every Manager in our company. Holly Green provides a great deal of easy-to-follow guidance on how to set proper goals and how to structure strategic planning that will help drive organizational performance.

More than a Minute is informative and insightful. It is a terrific resource for business owners, managers and employees alike and written in an open, friendly way without pretension or tired cliches. I plan on sharing this book with everyone on my team.

Giving feedback is often one of the things we avoid because we think it is all about conflict. This book offers some excellent insight into what feedback is really about and more importantly how to do it.

Holly G. Green capably covers basic leadership and management, and stresses the importance of communication, honesty, feedback and goal setting. Her book, while not particularly innovative, will help novice managers set objectives and meet them by working with the people they lead. Green's goal, as former president of The Ken Blanchard Companies, is to expand on the advice Blanchard gave in his classic, One Minute Manager, decades ago - hence, her book's title. Green's counsel on dealing with problematic employees will be particularly useful to beginners. Experienced managers and leaders managers are undoubtedly familiar with this material, even if they aren't updating it or putting it into practice, and that is where getAbstract thinks this back-to-basics, contemporary manual might spur them to action.

The First Step to being a Great Leader is to read MORE THAN A MINUTE: How to Be an Effective Leader and Manager in Today's Changing World.

More Than a Minute is a book that will transform the way you communicate ideas. In this book Holly Green, Managing Director and CEO of The Human Factor, Inc. shares her 20+ years of experience working with executive level management and strategic operations of highly successful companies such as Google and Coca Cola.

More Than a Minute is an extremely valuable resource for any of today's managers and leaders who wish to be on the road to "greatness." Reading this book is the first step towards making strategic planning a way of life. As Holly says, "Get back to the basics when everything around you diverts you into complexity."

This book is a true leadership reference guide that you will find you consistently return to again and again. It provides management methods that are conducive to today's fast-paced, changing world including simple tips and checklists that you can apply immediately. The format of the book is carefully laid out with simple outlined processes to help you apply the new principles and leverage your strengths as you read each section.

I recommend this book to those who want to maximize their potential. Because after reading and applying Holly's shared knowledge you will surely begin to improve as a leader, achieve greater results and successfully tackle the challenges & demands of today and tomorrow.

Holly G. Green's book More Than A Minute is a must read for anyone in a leader and/or management position, or anyone who desires to be there one day! Her down-to-earth demeanor and easy to follow rules and guidelines makes More Than A Minute both interesting and educational. It's the kind of book that you can read multiple times, and get something new out of it each time you do. If you don't read it, be sure you are missing out!

Holly's book provides real tools that almost anyone can apply in good times and tough ones. It is easy to read and really makes you want to act. This is one I will go back to and reference a lot - it is not theory, this is stuff I can truly use.