I ordered a copy and enjoyed a pleasant surge of nostalgia as I held the familiar, compact volume in my hand. But within minutes of starting to read, I found myself getting incredibly impatient at the author's leisurely stroll through the book's key points. Frustrated, I put the book down. Working in the Internet world had so completely rewired my mind that I'd actually believed The One Minute Manager was a book I could read in one minute. The problem, I realized, is that the way things are going these days, it's hard for me to find a free minute.
Internet companies expand at a mind-boggling pace.
They're full of super-motivated people who generate three times as many ideas as any company could possibly handle. Internet customers demand more and better and faster every single day, and companies are trying to build and maintain a technology war chest in a world where technology is a moving target, evolving every day. And then, of course, there were the reporters, politicians, nonprofit groups, and business school students who wanted to set up interviews. Sometimes they wanted feedback on the deal du jour making the headlines that had to do with Internet stocks or software wars. In short, they wanted to know where they can get some magic dust.