Owners – The monkey is assigned to A person at the lowest organizational level consistent with their welfare. In the Supernatural episode "Home", the evil entity of the episode possesses a toy monkey with cymbals, which turned on the garbage disposal while a plumber was working with the sink. Years ago, I had read The One Minute Manager and thought it was good but hadn't thought about it in years. Then, one day, I was in a meeting when one of my peers mentions this book about monkeys and I was like what? Whatever. Honestly, I didn't really think much about it since I had read the first one, thought it must have been the same book and kind of dismissed it. So here are 5 quotes from the book that I hope illustrate its brilliance and deliver a valuable lesson on editing comedy, working as an editor and handling life in the suite.

After I read the chapter on sound I made a note to myself: “ I thought this book was great but it’s better then that. It’s essential.“ How to make a joke funnier – Interview with Roger Nygard This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Along the way Roger has a ton of excellent advice to share on the business and diplomatic side of working as an editor, including interview techniques, how to answer specific questions, networking, crafting a resume and interacting with producers and directors. An editor is somebody that you have to spend an enormous amount of time with,” Alex Berg said, “Comedy writing is the same. A lot of what you get hired for is: Do I want to spend hours and hours with this person?”

Following the Ghent altarpiece theme towards the end, the book has multiple epilogues. Several of them are framed as “Panels”. Monkey, or rather Journey to the West, is a story that I’ve grown up with with children’s stories and TV adaptations. It’s a huge part of Chinese culture and there are even numerous temples dedicated to the Monkey God around the region. Reading this book made me do a bit more research on this - apparently worship to a Monkey God has been happening way, way before Wu Cheng’en wrote Journey to the West in the 14th century, so this might be his way of collating folktales around an existing mythology instead of inventing one of his own. My favorite scenes are the ‘contests of transformation,’ which happen twice, where competing adversaries shapeshift into different forms as they fight, constantly escalating their powers through the creatures they assume. I’d love to see that stuff on film. This adds a huge amount of insight and career experience to what could otherwise have been one man’s opinion.

The "monkey" in the title is defined as the "next move" and is separate from the project. Allen built on this with his "next action", the next step you can take toward completing a project that has no other steps before it. In "The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey", Blanchard offers a system for getting those next moves made by the person at the lowest level in the organization who can carry them out. Doing this frees up discretionary time, which allows managers to build stronger relationships and unleash their employees' genius. This becomes apparent in the next two stages of Lear’s approach to curriculum design: determining content and concepts and deciding inquiry questions. Rightly wary of the tenuous links approach to making cross-curricular links, Lear decides that using concepts is a good way of connecting learning in different subject areas. For example, concepts such as justice, free-will or truth could be used to link subjects together because they don’t fall into subject boxes. b. System-imposed – administrative and related demands from people (peer/associates) other than our bosses and staff, demands that are part of every organization. Admin forms to fill out, meetings to attend, phone calls to be handled. Reduce by building relationships with people in the system. Roger’s book weaves a deft balance of direct editorial insights and part autobiography – or at least a telling of his career path through the business of show – which has been broader than many editors, and this actually adds a further dimension to the scope and benefit of the book. Soon the name John Scopes would be famous all around the globe–which John began to realize with dread.”As an aside, I listened to Kenneth Williams’s performance of the audiobook which is probably extremely old (Williams passed away in 1988 so I’m assuming it had to be recorded in the early 80s or earlier). He gave the characters so much life, but the wild mispronunciations of Chinese names and terms in the book was also really grating. For example, he pronounces Taoist as “Tee-ao-ist” instead of just “Tow-ist”, and T’ang as “Tee-ang” (as in ‘anger’) instead of “Tung” (like ‘tongue’).