The One Minute Manager is a short book by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson.

[2] The One Minute Manager has sold 15 million copies and been translated into 47 languages.

The book was followed by a sequel, Leadership and the One Minute Manager: Increasing Effectiveness Through Situational Leadership II, by Ken Blanchard, Patricia Zigarmi and Drea Zigarmi, which laid out Blanchard's SLII concept.

[7][8] Time magazine cited it as one of the 25 Most Influential Business Management Books.

[11] In 2001 the Wall Street Journal ran an article noting that The One Minute Manager bore a resemblance to an article written by Blanchard's former colleague, Arthur Elliot Carlisle.