Puri: Employee-drafted one-page plans with manager feedback maximize ownership
Shaan Puri · How to go from founder to CEO (without imploding) · Oct 28, 2025 · at 17:37
Shaan Puri discusses operational delegation and management frameworks on My First Million, citing lessons adapted from the book 'The One Minute Manager'.
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“A one-minute plan essentially creating, like, a one-pager where the employee writes what they think they should focus on and what they're going to do, and there's, like, a revision process where the manager basically gives some feedback, and then the employee goes back And tries to work on, like, you know, based on the feedback until you arrive at a solution that they wrote, but you agree with. And so you get sort of the best of both worlds. They have the ownership of it. They're totally bought into the process. They've done the thinking. They didn't outsource the thinking, but you're totally on board with the thing.”
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