Despite following the world's most popular management method, even One Minute Managers can forget to look after number one. This book tells the story of one who is so much in demand that he eats on the run, doesn't take time to exercise, and never puts himself, his family or his well-being top of his list of priorities. He soon discovers that his life is out of balance and that success in business is endangering his health.

For all those busy, achieving people with overcrowded schedules, this useful blueprint shows how to manage stress and keep healthy. By following four important strategies for balancing a complicated life, everyone can achieve not only a new, healthier style of living but increased productivity as well.

'An amazing book about true fitness - achievable by everyone.' Dr Norman Vincent Peale, author of The Power of Positive Thinking.

I am excited about republishing The One Minute Manager Gets FitTM as part of the personal development series for The One Minute Manager Library. I think renaming it The One Minute Manager Balances Work and Life is appropriate as we move into the rapidly changing stress-inducing twenty-first century. Everyone is asking for help in a time when the only predictable things in life are death, taxes, and change.

In this episode of the One Minute Manager, our hero has a different kind of visitor. He gets a call from a college professor who comes not to learn but to teach. In the process, the One Minute Manager learns that the key to getting balance in your life and managing stress is taking the time to work on your fitness and health. Not only does he learn that working on his physical well-being makes a real difference in his own life, but he realizes that through a health-promotion program he can make a significant impact on the satisfaction and performance of the people in his company. It becomes crystal clear to the One Minute Manager that healthy people not only feel good about themselves but they produce good results.