Ken Blanchard Quotes

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Ken Blanchard

Profession : Businessman

Birth : May 6, 1939

At Southwest, they're on a mission to democratize air travel. When they first started, the only people who could fly were relatively wealthy businesspeople, and Herb Kelleher's vision was to offer everyone the chance to visit a friend or relative during a happy and a sad time. That's a vision employees can get excited about.

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The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

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Leadership is not about you; it's about investing in the growth of others.

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One of the topics I'm most passionate about is servant leadership - the greatest leaders recognize that they're here to serve, not to be served.

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For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.

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People will resist change when it's done to them, not with them.

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

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Too many leaders act as if the sheep... their people... are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.

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It's been true in my life that when I've needed a mentor, the right person shows up.

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In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

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As a leader, you absolutely must expend your energy engaging your frontline employees so that they will take care of customers, who will tell stories about how great your company is to other people, who will become new customers.

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I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.

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All good performance starts with clear goals.

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'One Minute Mentoring' is written in the parable style Spencer Johnson and I popularized in 'The One Minute Manager.' It's an entertaining story about the mentorship between a young salesperson, Josh, and a seasoned executive named Diane. As the characters learn about mentoring, so does the reader.

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When you write a business fable, people get caught up in the story and don't get judgmental about what you're teaching them. If you're teaching a bunch of concepts, people get skeptical and say, 'Where'd you get that research?' But if you tell them a story, they get caught up in it while they learn.

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People love to be appreciated.

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I think a great leader is somebody who realizes it's not about them, it's about the people that they're serving, that they're really other-directed rather than self- directed.

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The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.

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Age is rarely a limitation to being a mentor.

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The biggest obstacle that stalls leaders' growth is the human ego. When leaders start to think they know it all, they stop growing.

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