Remember the old joke “Instant gratification isn’t fast enough”? That was something like the reaction Mark Breier had when he picked up a copy of The One Minute Manager, a book he’d once found profound. Now Breier, formerly CEO of Beyond.com and marketing vice president at Amazon.com, found that he was annoyed by the book’s leisurely pace. So he sat down to write the Y2K version of one-minute managing, which essentially shows modern executives how to do the job in one-sixth the time.
