Is your manager always right? Do you frequently need a scolding for your foolish work behavior? If not, then you NEED this book!

I was afraid this gem was no longer available - I am so glad that it's still around! Because as long as people are still reading and recommending "The One-Minute Manager", then "The 59-Second Employee" is the best antidote.

Think about your job and the skills you've learned over all the years you've been employed. If you saw a book that purported to teach those skills in a few One-Minute rules, you'd know it was silly. But somehow some managers believe that managing other people is as simple as that! You need to protect yourself from any manager who handles you this way.

This book tells you how to manage up - how to use your knowledge and skills to help your manager help your team and help you.

If you are managed by someone else, you need this book. If you manage others, then PLEASE read this book! You owe it to the people you depend on.

If you think that "The One Minute Manager" and "Who Moved My Cheese?" are good books, then this book is definitely not for you.

However, if you look up over the Dilbert calendar on your desk and shake your head at the multiple idiocies of "one-minute management" invading corporate America today, then you will certainly enjoy this book.

The one minute manager is a really dumb book. If you ever work for one of these pointy headed dudes who use it as their management bible, you need help. The "59 second employee" will help you out. While the best thing may be to change jobs, i.e. hire yourself a new manager, sometimes that isn't an option. As the 59 second employee you can train a one minute manager to stop doing one minute solutions to complex problems. Its harder work than doing your job, but possible. Thanks to the fact you read this book and are at least one second ahead of them.

I would recommend this book only for a very specific reader - someone who is newly divorced and has never lived other than as a couple. For that person I would probably give it 5 stars. For anyone else, including those people who like me live alone (not lonely) quite successfully but sometimes just get tired of it, STAY AWAY! The author sees solitude as the one and only end to a life alone, almost to the point where it seemed to me she was discouraging someone from starting new relationships. I think if you are someone who has always been coupled and does not know how to look at life in any other way you might need this kind of backlash, at least in the initial phases, but it only made me more depressed than I already was (which was not much. but after reading it, I was quite a bit.) I'd hoped this book would be a positive affirmation of a situation a lot of people find themselves in even if it is not a conscious choice, but instead it was a "how-to" book on making that life a conscious (and permanent) choice.

To the point: yes it's difficult being alone, but there's more to it than you have thought about. If you have any doubts about solitude please read this book.

This book is a masterpiece. If you are confronted with solitude, this book will help you embrace it. It covers different aspects of solitude (vs. loneliness), such as decision-making, sensuality, celebrations, psychotherapy. It helps you view your solitude without shame.