Minimalist Management
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Editor's review
In terms of structure, the book avoids lengthy case analyses and uses short, sharp chapters, each built around a core management pain point—such as focusing goals, meeting efficiency, or redundant decision-making—and offers simplification principles that can be applied immediately. This approach makes for a highly efficient reading experience, especially suited to reflection and rumination in fragmented time. The author's style is calm and restrained, without excessive sentiment or motivational slogans, which makes it all the more practical.
It should be noted that the "minimalism" in this book does not offer a one-time solution, but guides readers toward self-examination and restructuring their patterns. It is better suited to middle managers who already have some management experience but feel exhausted by daily affairs and trapped by complex processes. For beginners, some of the book's highly condensed ideas may require concrete practice to be fully appreciated. Overall, this is a reflective book worth keeping close at hand and rereading, whose value lies not in adding to knowledge but in "lightening" and "refining" existing management thinking.
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Frontline managers newly appointed to management roles who want to quickly build a management framework
- Owners of small and medium-sized enterprises who want to improve team efficiency with fewer processes
- Professionals interested in minimalism who want to apply it to their work
- Project leaders who are drained by too many meetings, reports, and communications
Not a good fit for
- Readers seeking systematic academic management theory or quantitative research methods
- Professionals in large organizations who specialize in process reengineering and institutional design
- Readers expecting specific industry cases and operational templates
Reading tips
- Start with the planning and communication chapters, and list the steps in your current workflow that can be cut
- After each chapter, write on one page a simplification action you can carry out immediately this week
- Use the reporting and collaboration chapters as a reference, consulting them as needed when meeting or reporting problems arise
- After finishing, spend half an hour sharing with colleagues and use their perspective to test your simplification plan
About the publisher
Liaoning People's Publishing House is a local publisher focusing on works in the social sciences. Its publishing areas cover philosophy, politics, economics, history and law, and also include dictionaries and reference books. It currently has 332 titles in the database. Its publishing profile is best reflected in translations of foreign literature and Western philosophy, with common categories including foreign literature, Western philosophy and Eastern philosophy. Representative books include English-language editions or translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Cervantes's Don Quixote, Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and The Idiot, Hugo's Les Misérables, Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature and Eliot's Middlemarch. Its author resources involve Homer, Cervantes, Dostoevsky, Victor Hugo, David Hume, George Eliot and Alexis de Tocqueville. As public information is limited, its specific publishing features require further confirmation through more bibliographic data.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 序：极简就是力量
- Ⅰ 管理，越简单越好
- 不堪重负的时代
- 人为制造的复杂
- 狄德罗的睡袍
- 压力带来复杂
- 管理无技巧，越简单越好
- 把大公司做小
- Ⅱ 制订极简的计划
- 知道自己要做什么
- 别让工作追着跑
- 制定一分钟目标
- 只有一只手表
- 时刻记得终极目标
- 写下第二天的工作
- 做好时间管理
- 凡事必有顺序
- Ⅲ 用最直接的方式
- 以问题为中心，就事论事
- 不做不值得做的事情
- 收集极简工作的技巧
- 别用跳高的方法跨栏
- 提高效率的7个秘诀
- 经验有时很管用
- 抓住事物的关键
- 抓住核心而非全部
- Ⅳ 进行极简的沟通
- 沟通是个无底洞
- 沟通要到位
- 主动与上司沟通
- 积极与下属沟通
- 抓住沟通的诀窍
- 不做无效的争论
- 不要轻信心领神会
- Ⅴ 制作极简的报告
- 只有一页的报告
- 详略得当，内容精简
- 最重要的是突出重点
- 注重与上司互动
- 邮件越短，越容易阅读
- 缩短制作PPT与报告的时间
- 不要小题大做
- 有效地过滤你的邮件
- Ⅵ 进行极简的协作
- 排除他人的干扰
- 敦促每个中间环节
- 保持极简的交往
- 委婉地表达拒绝
- 把工作当成娱乐
- 诚信是极简管理的灵魂
- 给下属足够的空间
- Ⅶ 强调执行的文化
- 极简管理的本质是文化管理
- 建立执行的文化
- 统一核心价值观
- 极简管理是一种思维
- 想要什么，你就奖励什么
- 强调什么，你就检查什么
- 重结果，轻过程
- 进行“五清”管理
- Ⅷ 建立极简的机制
- 形成一种自然秩序
- 进行“减法”经营
- “KISS”原则
- 标准化、流水线作业
- 以客为尊，一切皆极简
- 让产品极简化
- 让营销极简化
- 最重要的是责任体系
- 后记
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About the author
Xi Wu is a book author about whom little public information is available; no reliable details on nationality, birth and death dates, or educational background can be confirmed. Judging from the 16 titles in the collection, the writing focuses mainly on social psychology, inspirational growth, management, and applied psychology. Representative works include The Psychology of Speaking: The Most Powerful Woman Is the One Who Knows How to Speak, Dedication Leads to a Career, Minimalist Management, Wolf Spirit, Management Methods: The 28 Most Influential Classic Principles, From Being Ignored to Being Supported by Everyone, and Harvard Emotional Intelligence Course along with its revised edition. Overall, Xi Wu writes practical popular books that translate psychological concepts into concrete advice on everyday communication, workplace attitudes, and management methods, in accessible language and a clear structure, for general readers seeking to improve their expression, emotional intelligence, and professional competence.
Zhang Yi is an author whose works span a wide range of subjects. Public information about him is limited, and details of his life remain unclear. The collection holds nineteen of his works, covering categories such as theory, medicine, culture, health, management, and social culture. Judging from his representative titles, he attends both to the history of literary and artistic thought in the Song and Yuan dynasties and to the spiritual world of Chinese scholars such as Su Shi and Zhu Xi, while also addressing medical and health topics such as the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer and common knowledge about fever. He has likewise written a brief history of artificial intelligence, a concise guide to management, and a documentary work on a warship research and design team. This range across the humanities, popular medical writing, and practical management suggests that his writing emphasizes clear organization of knowledge and accessible expression, turning specialized material into reading suited to general readers. Overall, his works are broad in subject and aimed at a popular audience, touching on several fields of knowledge.
