At a glance
- Region
- Global / Diaspora
- Review
Politics, governance and authority
Summary
William Oncken — pronounced 'On' in the lesson — the management thinker who set out the 'monkey laws' theory of delegation in the Harvard Business Review; al-Suwaidan recounts that publishers rejected his book until he turned to Ken Blanchard, who wrote the foreword, and the book came out jointly as The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey and spread and made him famous 1 2. See: The monkey laws and delegation.
Connections
People and things also explored
Kenneth Blanchard· The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey· Ahl al-Diwan (those paid from the state register of soldiers and officers, and the rules of their conditions and distribution)· Ahl al-Hall wa al-Aqd (those who loose and bind: the men of power whose choice confirms the imam)· Ahl al-Mahalla (the people of a quarter, their imam, call to prayer, and their part in the oath and blood money where a body is found)· Islamic management· Experience versus service, and self-development· The nominal group technique
Sources
- Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Administrative Processus Abilities, episode 3, at 00:21:30 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
- Assabile archive of Tareq al-Suwaidan's lectures (video) , Administrative Processus Abilities, episode 3, at 00:28:30 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “William Oncken”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/william-oncken/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-26.